as in segregation
a former social system in South Africa in which black people and people from other racial groups did not have the same political and economic rights as white people and were forced to live separately from white people
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Moore said Wilson passionately advocated for the program over the past decades in Brookfield schools, as segregation can still be prevalent.—
Drake Bentley,
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Never mind white World War Two soldiers’ relationship to segregation within the army itself, and ensuring that Black veterans couldn’t be entitled to the same VA resources, couldn’t move into the same neighborhoods that white veterans moved into.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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But is protecting children with disabilities from discrimination really a partisan cause?—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
29 Oct. 2025
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High velocity, nasty breaking stuff, pinpoint location -- Guerrero has hammered them all without discrimination.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Oct. 2025
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