segregated
adjective
seg·re·gat·ed
ˈse-gri-ˌgā-təd 
1
a
: set apart or separated from others of the same kind or group
a segregated account in a bank
b
: divided in facilities or administered separately for members of different groups or races
segregated education
c
: restricted to members of one group or one race by a policy of segregation
segregated schools
2
: practicing or maintaining segregation especially of races
segregated states
Examples of segregated in a Sentence
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Basically, the city tolerates things like encampments, bizarre behavior in public, and drug use as long as it's contained in segregated areas that are mostly out of sight of the majority of city residents.
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Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
Never mind that right up until the storm the congregants sat segregated, with Slidell’s white residents on one side and its Creole parishioners on the other.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
Rather than have Black recruits train at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, the Marines created an adjacent segregated camp at Montford Point.
—Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
Black patients living in highly segregated neighborhoods are less likely to receive kidneys from live donors.
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
Her small town was in the heart of the segregated South where there were separate churches for Black and White residents at the time.
—Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
And in a way, language kind of captures some of that for us in the way that humans have naturally sort of segregated or divided these into different categories.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
The Santa Monica City Council voted Tuesday to explore compensating the descendants of Silas White, a Black businessman who wanted to renovate an old building on Ocean Avenue into a hotel and beach club for Black patrons in the segregated city.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
In the segregated South, racial discrimination was a fact of daily life.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
Never mind that right up until the storm the congregants sat segregated, with Slidell’s white residents on one side and its Creole parishioners on the other.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
Rather than have Black recruits train at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, the Marines created an adjacent segregated camp at Montford Point.
—Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 22 Feb. 2024
Black patients living in highly segregated neighborhoods are less likely to receive kidneys from live donors.
—Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
Her small town was in the heart of the segregated South where there were separate churches for Black and White residents at the time.
—Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
And in a way, language kind of captures some of that for us in the way that humans have naturally sort of segregated or divided these into different categories.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2024
The Santa Monica City Council voted Tuesday to explore compensating the descendants of Silas White, a Black businessman who wanted to renovate an old building on Ocean Avenue into a hotel and beach club for Black patrons in the segregated city.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
In the segregated South, racial discrimination was a fact of daily life.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
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“Segregated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/segregated. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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