segregate
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On Friday, a federal appeals court declined the government's request to segregate the ballots.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
"The only way to preserve the district court's ability to grant relief to the United States after a full merits proceeding, therefore, is to segregate the challenged ballots now," Sauer said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
The model was trained to segregate the “pure news” in each article from that which was old and stale and, therefore, predictable.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026
His aim wasn’t to segregate black history from the national narrative but to force its inclusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
The auditory cortex also recognizes the location of different sound sources in space, and can identify and segregate different auditory objects.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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The factory accepts waste material which it then sorts and segregates.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
Admiral Ring renewed that effort last June, telling reporters that the current top-secret prison where the military segregates high-value detainees, called Camp 7, would become inadequate as the prisoners aged.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
The Douglas County Jail has three pods for men in custody, which segregates inmates by minimum, medium and maximum risk classifications.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2016
The visual pathway segregates information from the two eyes so that one half of the visual field projects to the other side of the brain.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Man selects the variation that pleases him, eliminates or segregates the type that does not, and by following up the process eventually produces a distinct and fixed variation.
From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Chapman Cohen
In a city that is multicultural but also segregated, Cooks said, “there are multiple art worlds,” and this “unprecedented project” puts them all in dialogue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Like Owens, Davis endured humiliations off the field: threats, insults, segregated hotels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Saar grew up in a partially segregated city and came of age in a society where Black women were expected to find practical work, not become artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
"It brought a lot of people together in a very kind of segregated world that we're living in," said Zeileen Reardon, who spoke while watching the team play Morocco in a bar in Calgary.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Though the schools were segregated, sometimes Colored and White children would play together after classes let out, as they had when we’d lived back at Dutch Run.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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At this World Cup, authorities didn’t bother segregating them, including at the potentially fractious semifinal between ancient enemies England and Argentina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
It was launched in the 1970s by the federal government as an alternative to public housing projects, which were criticized for segregating poor families in neighborhoods with low-quality schools and other substandard services.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
She feels mixed-gender cards rather than segregating the two codes will attract more interest.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025
When asked whether identifying and segregating the necessary proportion of the population may not be achievable for that approach to be effective, Bhattacharya replied by criticizing the experts who claimed that to be the case.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2022
Once again Holmes’s method of segregating tasks and firing workers was proving successful.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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