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separation

[sep-uh-rey-shuhn] / ˌsɛp əˈreɪ ʃən /


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However, the president will not be at any of the Pope's Masses, largely to avoid breaching France's strict separation of state and religion.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

SpaceX has also said the primary goal for Starship’s Super Heavy booster is to execute a successful launch, ascent and stage separation, followed by a boostback burn and landing burn in the Gulf of Mexico.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

The measurements allowed the team to trace hydrogen across distances of several million light-years, roughly comparable to the separation between the Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

“We looked specifically at meows in two contexts: separation from their human in an unfamiliar environment, and then the human’s return,” Schwartz says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

But I hated the practice of apartheid—the legal separation of blacks and whites.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

There's only one drawback: "long separations from the family during assignments," he says from Kosovo, where he is helping install a wind farm.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

And just a few weeks ago, civil rights lawyers joined with parents’ and children’s advocates to bring landmark class-action litigation to end illegal family separations.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

The membranes could also benefit pharmaceutical production, where highly accurate separations are critical for product quality and manufacturing efficiency.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026

The republic brings with it constitutional limits, separations of power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

The separations hadn’t been good for us, but they hadn’t hurt us that much either.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler




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