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segregated

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verb

past tense of segregate

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Recent Examples of segregated
Adjective
The Mission-style burrito, with its monstrous circumference and segregated ingredients, strikes me as a variation best loved by the people who grew up loving it. Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 3 May 2026 Shirley was buried in a segregated graveyard under live oaks, on a bayou. Jesmyn Ward, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
Detainees are segregated based on criminal history and whether they are considered a flight risk, according to a handbook made public as part of a lawsuit over whether detainees have proper access to attorneys. ABC News, 7 May 2026 Ballots would need to be separated, databases would need to be segregated, and poll workers would need to explain who can vote for what. Matt Klink, Oc Register, 1 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for segregated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for segregated
Adjective
  • Tommy Flanagan served as another ally to Maximus and Lucilla as Cicero, who facilitated communication between the separated lovers.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
  • Whereas within cool-guy culture, things are a little bit more separated.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The transportation problems were not isolated to one delegation.
    Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Patrick Bamford, the existing No 9, had been publicly isolated from Farke’s squad by this point, but was still on the books, of course.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 17 May 2026
Adjective
  • His is a more enlightened era, but Hannes, lonely and withdrawn, doesn’t share his classmates’ interest in campus sit-ins and free love.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • Lost was the fact that a grid-connection request is just the start of a multiyear process that involves permitting and legal review and often ends in withdrawn or downsized projects.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • The trial was a madly raucous media event, requiring many weeks and a sequestered jury.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 1 Feb. 2026
  • In the second clinical trial, not yet published, 36 sequestered volunteers ate an additional 1,000 calories a day when on the ultraprocessed food diet, according to a midpoint analysis of the data by Hall.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The conservation effort is also rooted in faith as the cloistered community is inspired in part by Laudato Si', a 2015 encyclical from Pope Francis calling for environmental stewardship.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Before the rise of Aventura, bachata — Dominican folk music of the working class, which traces its roots to the 1960s — was largely a cloistered concern.
    New York Times, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • All three companies sell products that aren’t day-to-day essentials, such as concert tickets, river cruises and insulated water bottles.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • Beds are plush, and rooms are well insulated from outside noise, which matters in a city that rarely quiets down.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 May 2026
Adjective
  • For bigger crews, there’s a three-bedroom Coral Villa and the swirling Perlah Villa complex, which comes with space for up to nine guests and has a pool, dining pavilion, and secluded beachfront lawn for barbecues.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026
  • Other award-winning sites include a place with a drive-in movie theater near Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, geodesic domes in Texas, safari tents in Kentucky, a secluded tent getaway in the Catskills of New York and a converted school bus outside Lake Huron in Michigan.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 18 May 2026
Adjective
  • The 61-year-old retired police officer spent 37 days behind bars before authorities dropped the felony charge against him in October.
    R.j. Rico, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
  • The 10th District will feature a rematch between Perry, a retired Army National Guard brigadier general and staunch Trump ally, and Stelson, a former television news anchor who narrowly lost to him in 2024.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 20 May 2026

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“Segregated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segregated. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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