separable

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But up until then, the night’s two starting pitchers were hardly separable.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2025

The tribunal rejected the claim as the firms were in "separable" areas.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2024

This is known as technical-social dualism, the idea that the technical and social dimensions of engineering problems are readily separable and remain distinct throughout the problem-definition and solution process.

From Scientific American • Feb. 24, 2022

This “analysis” made no room for the complexity of cultural influences, and reduced me to a collection of separable Chinese and American parts, somehow symbolic of the United States and China as rival political entities.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022

Chemically distinct from uranium and therefore theoretically separable by chemical means, element 94 appeared to be about five times more fissionable than uranium.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik