separation
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However, the president will not be at any of the Pope's Masses, largely to avoid breaching France's strict separation of state and religion.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Once the separation becomes larger, however, the individual time crystals no longer lock together and instead continue oscillating independently.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
SpaceX has also said the primary goal for Starship’s Super Heavy booster is to execute a successful launch, ascent and stage separation, followed by a boostback burn and landing burn in the Gulf of Mexico.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Winning that competition would complete the county’s separation from LAHSA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
There need be no relation between the distance through the wormhole and the separation of its ends in the nearly flat background.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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And just a few weeks ago, civil rights lawyers joined with parents’ and children’s advocates to bring landmark class-action litigation to end illegal family separations.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The membranes could also benefit pharmaceutical production, where highly accurate separations are critical for product quality and manufacturing efficiency.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
“This is one of the more important industrial separations, not because it is dramatic, but because it makes sense,” says The Edge research founder Jim Osman.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Death is not the only source of lasting pain, of course: Ms. Carr writes with touching power of the divorce-related family separations of her own girlhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
And Nigeria is not a nation of people with food allergies, not a nation of picky eaters for whom food is about distinctions and separations.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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