desegregate

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Recent Examples of desegregate During the Civil Rights movement, the public sector was quicker to desegregate its workforce and offer equal employment opportunities than the private sector. Daryl Fairweather, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Hill told The Star that the root of her passion sprang from her own experience attending KCPS during a time when the district sought to desegregate schools through busing efforts. Mará Rose Williams august 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2025 But the elementary school has its own history of taking ambitious steps, choosing in 1944 to voluntarily desegregate. Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025 Although the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, ruling declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional, Austin was still ordered by a federal judge in 1971 to bus children across town to desegregate its schools — a practice that continued until 1986. Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for desegregate
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integrate
Verb
  • The software, called VenApp, was originally launched by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2022 as a hybrid application, integrating a messaging service with a helpline for people to report issues with utility services, such as power outages and water disruptions.
    Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Pisen's smart power solutions are designed to integrate into this dynamic urban fabric, where every minute holds value and no moment should be cut short by a dead battery.
    Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025

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