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Recent Examples of segregate Layered roof leaves offer a way to let air circulate — and a means to split the terminal into several mini-terminals in case one of them needs to be blocked off quickly to segregate passengers or test for diseases. Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 15 May 2025 These fissures are where Islamism leaps in to segregate, cohort, and indoctrinate with antidemocratic illiberal Islamist values forming the milieu ripe for radicalization, including terrorism and evolutionary jihad. Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025 Twenty-six years ago, the Court found that segregating people with disabilities in institutions when community care was more appropriate amounted to discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 6 May 2025 The city’s art scene was still largely segregated, and still suspicious of photography. Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 5 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for segregate
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  • The Republican Study Committee's Maximum Pressure initiative includes 10 bills designed to cut off Tehran's remaining funding, freeze their assets, isolate their regime, and protect U.S. interests.
    Kristen Waggoner, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
  • What’s driving these gains isn’t just isolated use cases or incremental automation.
    Nirit Cohen, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
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  • In a game where the Angels and Nationals combined for 24 runs and 30 hits — with the 19 hits and 15 runs given up by the Angels’ pitching staff representing season-worst marks — what ultimately separated the teams was the Angels’ inability to come through with runners on base.
    Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
  • According to the London Times’ Philip Willan, a trade union that represents museum workers had previously warned the Uffizi about the risks posed by the platforms separating visitors from the art.
    Aurora Martínez, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025

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“Segregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segregate. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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