segregate
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The model was trained to segregate the “pure news” in each article from that which was old and stale and, therefore, predictable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026
His aim wasn’t to segregate black history from the national narrative but to force its inclusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Professors collaborated with the directors of the campus art museum and instructors in the social sciences and business departments, to demonstrate that knowledge is impossible to segregate or compartmentalize.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2024
To cut and dig up mushrooms, “you need a knife, and you need to segregate your specimens from each other,” Hudgins said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
The auditory cortex also recognizes the location of different sound sources in space, and can identify and segregate different auditory objects.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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The factory accepts waste material which it then sorts and segregates.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
Admiral Ring renewed that effort last June, telling reporters that the current top-secret prison where the military segregates high-value detainees, called Camp 7, would become inadequate as the prisoners aged.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
The Douglas County Jail has three pods for men in custody, which segregates inmates by minimum, medium and maximum risk classifications.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2016
The visual pathway segregates information from the two eyes so that one half of the visual field projects to the other side of the brain.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
This fact agrees with the hypothesis that the factors in such a case are contained in a single chromosome which segregates from the fellow of its pair in the reduction divisions.
From Hormones and Heredity by J. T. Cunningham
Michaela Rafferty, who works with the Anaka Women's Collective helping migrant women, said people arrive in Northern Ireland without an understanding of the complexity of division – or how housing is segregated along sectarian lines.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Like Owens, Davis endured humiliations off the field: threats, insults, segregated hotels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Refiners have to follow very precise sets of specifications for jet fuel, and also have to make sure the product is completely segregated from other derivatives and adequately stored.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
The artistic director could not yet confirm who would direct the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a former Negro League baseball player and his family navigating life in 1950s segregated Pittsburgh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2026
Single men and women slept in dormitories segregated by sex.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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At this World Cup, authorities didn’t bother segregating them, including at the potentially fractious semifinal between ancient enemies England and Argentina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
It was launched in the 1970s by the federal government as an alternative to public housing projects, which were criticized for segregating poor families in neighborhoods with low-quality schools and other substandard services.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
She feels mixed-gender cards rather than segregating the two codes will attract more interest.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025
Department of Justice sued Georgia for unnecessarily segregating people with developmental disabilities and mental illness.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2024
But this neatness, the neatness of Dante, was in the orderly sectioning and segregating of all levels of evil and decay.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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