separated

The Justice Department has been largely separated from White House influence since Watergate.

Or Peter Thiel's "seasteading" dream of an island nation where he and his buddies could be lordlings, carefully separated from the ordinary people who frighten them.

Food is mostly reconstituted in packets, separated into different compartments by nation.

“I separated from an Army that didn’t want me anymore. The feeling was mutual — I didn’t want this Army anymore either.”

At “The Big D,” Golden and comics Shawn Pelofsky, Ismael Loutfi, Christie Campagna and Torrance Hill — all “in various stages of divorce” — invite 12 audience members identifying as, per Golden’s description, “divorced, separated, consciously uncoupled, teetering on the edge, divorce-curious, looking to date a divorced human,” onstage for an interview and speed-date pairing.