as in to integrate
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Recent Examples of desegregate
Months before the three arrived at the school in the fall of 1961, the university’s board of trustees had voted to desegregate Duke’s graduate and professional schools.
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Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
One of her children, Marilyn Holifield, chose to be one of the first students to desegregate her high school in the early ’60s and went on to become a local civic leader and the first Black woman partner at a major law firm in Florida.
—Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
The sit-ins spread to more than a hundred cities, and within six months, the Greensboro lunch counter—now part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History—was desegregated.
—Katya Cengel, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025
You were being escorted by U.S. Marshals into a school that was newly desegregated.
—NBC News, 29 Dec. 2024
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Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
One of her children, Marilyn Holifield, chose to be one of the first students to desegregate her high school in the early ’60s and went on to become a local civic leader and the first Black woman partner at a major law firm in Florida.
—Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
The sit-ins spread to more than a hundred cities, and within six months, the Greensboro lunch counter—now part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History—was desegregated.
—Katya Cengel, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025
You were being escorted by U.S. Marshals into a school that was newly desegregated.
—NBC News, 29 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desegregate
integrate
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As more sensors enter the mix, there is a growing need for an open architecture that allows new sensors to be quickly integrated into the detection network.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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Kinshasa, meanwhile, would have to facilitate the M23’s transition to a legitimate political party and help its combatants integrate into the Congolese army or demobilize.—
Joshua Z. Walker,
Foreign Affairs,
17 June 2025
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“Desegregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desegregate. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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