- present tense form of separate (3rd person singular).
separates
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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
A multinational study found that people taking these drugs were more than four times as likely to report nail detachment, a condition in which the nail separates from the skin underneath it.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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