separate off
phrasal verb
separated off; separating off; separates off
: to cause (someone or something) to be separate from other people or things
He separated himself off from the crowd.
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In France, the accused will be separated off and everything goes on around her.
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
And then there’s gravitational instability, which is when a blob of debris kind of separates off from the rest of a cloud and eventually gains enough internal gravity that the whole thing just collapses to form the core of a new planet.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
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Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
And then there’s gravitational instability, which is when a blob of debris kind of separates off from the rest of a cloud and eventually gains enough internal gravity that the whole thing just collapses to form the core of a new planet.
—Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
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“Separate off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/separate%20off. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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