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separate

[sep-uh-rayt, sep-er-it] / ˈsɛp əˌreɪt, ˈsɛp ər ɪt /






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Once the system had been trained, the team tested it against two additional datasets: two years of anonymized EKG records from a San Diego hospital system and a separate collection of patient data from Taipei.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026

Two of his former ministers, including Seszták, and the former central bank chief Gyorgy Matolcsy have been under arrest since September over accusations of graft in separate investigations.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

The UN court case and ASEAN's diplomatic dilemma are separate issues on paper.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

Each cruise line has its own casino loyalty program—generally separate from the line’s regular loyalty program—that tracks your activity at table games and slot machines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

On Oakland’s fringe there was a neighborhood, masquerading as an entirely separate town, called Rockridge.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Brennan also raised concerns about security in the Mozambique Channel, which separates Mozambique and Madagascar from mainland Africa and is an important route for international shipping and trade.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

It also separates institutions that can afford to verify their degrees from those that can’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

State Drive, an ugly black roadway, separates the Science Center and its new addition from the park’s Rose Garden, and serves as a sad connector to the rest of the park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The MDL is the border within the DMZ that separates the two countries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

I’m starting in on that theme when she suddenly dives behind the rack that separates the place where we’re standing, in the Jordache/No Boundaries section, from the Faded Glory region.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

She and I had separated that morning at Miami International Airport after a trans-Atlantic cruise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

Over many generations, the separated groups can accumulate different genetic and physical traits.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

In 2015 a girlfriend and I spent a few months separated by an ocean, during a period when my depression was consuming me.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

Ivybridge Community College uses a system of what it described as "reset" and "reflection" - by which pupils are separated from their classmates for part or the whole of the school day.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Teresita and I hug each other as if we’ve been separated for years.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Nevertheless, Hyde-Smith’s team insisted that separating affidavit ballots is required by Mississippi law and federal law, so that each one “can be verified.”

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

She noticed white powder had started separating from his forehead.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

In this case, however, the same phenomenon made the membrane highly effective at separating different molecules.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Instead, the achievement serves as a powerful reminder of the enormous distances separating objects in the universe and the remarkable endurance of a spacecraft launched nearly half a century ago.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

And then a second later, the door in front of them buzzed and clicked open, separating a good inch from the doorframe.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix


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