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separate

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






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For Francois Charles, mathematician and department head at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, two separate issues are playing out.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

In a separate Gartner survey, 80% of chief executives said technology now has become strategy itself, with tech at the center of conversations that drive competitiveness and enterprise direction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

For years, artist Todd Gray kept the two strands of his creative life totally separate from each other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Meanwhile, the ground around its active Santiago crater and lava lake continued to sink, suggesting that a separate, shallower magma reservoir was behaving differently.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Historians try to separate tall tales and fanciful recollections from actual events.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

In June, business applications from Gen Z customers grew disproportionately from a year earlier, Bowley said, as did payments to open limited-liability companies, a business structure that separates personal and financial assets and liabilities.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The choice of cathode material, or how the electrolyte – which separates cathode and anode – is formulated are key details influencing the performance and longevity of sodium ion batteries.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

"This study gives us real-world evidence about what separates a storm that is becoming organized from one that remains tilted and less capable of strengthening."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

As soon as Mom parks, I jump out of the car and run to the low wooden fence that separates the parking lot from the water.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

They placed a fish into a tank already occupied by another fish, with the two separated by a fiberglass mesh barrier and an opaque cover.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The largest and most painful division is the one that has separated the Eastern churches from the Western churches—the Orthodox from the Catholic—for a millennium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Whether or not you think she’s guilty of fraud, she is about to be separated from her infant and toddler until they’re in grade school.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Down a flight of leopard-print stairs, the lower level is home to two expansive bedroom suites, separated by a media room, which could also serve as a third bedroom.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Although separated in age by almost four decades, the two players became relatively close and remained so for years.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

There is no single fix, but some options include handing off U.S. bottling, or, even more dramatically, separating the drinks business through a sale or spinoff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Signatories said Birmingham had been central to the show's identity since it began and warned that separating cast and production teams could affect the way the programme is made.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

“I started thinking about this in a way that I think was separating me from the pain of what was happening,” Crystal told the outlet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

The researchers addressed this limitation by separating phosphorus according to the minerals that contained it.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Like most of his biochemist colleagues, Miescher was also trying to classify the molecular components of cells by breaking cells apart and separating the chemicals that were released.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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