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The team used n-hexane, a solvent widely employed to separate fats from other materials.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
Lines says it wants to build a new vessel or convert an existing ship into a floating data center moored in a port, powered either from shore or by a separate power ship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 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
There is not a dump or landfill to take our trash to and so we separate it— organic, inorganic—and deal with it ourselves.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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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
To the east, the Adriatic Sea separates Italy from the partially visible Balkan Peninsula.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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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
“I kind of separated the two a little bit,” Bontempo says.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
The roof was built with an overhang, so that a narrow gap separated the two buildings.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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
Vance's statement seemed like "a way of separating himself from Trump," said Daniel Byman, a foreign policy expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
This boundary, called the horizon, would begin as a single structure before separating into two distinct branches.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
What began as a way to share our success became something more meaningful: an opportunity to dismantle barriers separating people from capital markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Discovering that Bert had valuable experience as a metalworker, he pulled Bert from the line, separating him from his parents.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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