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Recent Examples of desegregate
And his heroics helped desegregate the armed forces.
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Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Justices in the case required the board to create a busing plan that would desegregate the school district, spurring the use of buses to integrate schools nationwide.
—Maia Nehme, Charlotte Observer, 29 July 2025
Looby, an attorney, played a crucial role in desegregating Nashville.
—Austin Hornbostel, The Tennessean, 17 July 2025
After the Civil War, South Carolina College briefly desegregated, allowing Black students from 1873 to 1877, but politicians closed the university in 1877 and reopened it as an all-White school in 1880.
—David Ubben, New York Times, 11 July 2025
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Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Justices in the case required the board to create a busing plan that would desegregate the school district, spurring the use of buses to integrate schools nationwide.
—Maia Nehme, Charlotte Observer, 29 July 2025
Looby, an attorney, played a crucial role in desegregating Nashville.
—Austin Hornbostel, The Tennessean, 17 July 2025
After the Civil War, South Carolina College briefly desegregated, allowing Black students from 1873 to 1877, but politicians closed the university in 1877 and reopened it as an all-White school in 1880.
—David Ubben, New York Times, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desegregate
integrate
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There’s some good advice on how to integrate the Infinity Stones into tabletop stories.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Grok is what happens when a mercurical man of tremendous wealth and influence builds one of the world’s most powerful AI models and then integrates it into a major social-media platform that has become, under his direction, a hub for white supremacy.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Desegregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desegregate. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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