segregating

present participle of segregate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of segregating One example of this would be segregating cash into envelopes labeled for different purposes. Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 7 July 2026 The organizers refused to stop at cities that insisted on segregating crowds. Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026 Federal prosecutors discovered that the campaign filings showed a pattern of segregating the kickbacks from the district attorney’s staff in a later campaign disclosure hoping nobody would follow up. John O’Hara, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026 There was no legal basis for segregating students of Mexican descent from other students. Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026 His surprising case for segregation is that prisons are self-segregating, and white people still have power in the yard. Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025 The proposal would assign a DOJ team from another district to examine device backups and cloud data obtained from an attorney, segregating any privileged content. Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025 Letting the very small number of transgender students in Minnesota play on their school sports teams doesn't harm anyone, but segregating them does. Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for segregating
Verb
  • On the path through the cornfield separating the movie site from the stadium sits a bar and seating areas.
    Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Monday’s announcement by the Republican president calls for separating combination shots — including the measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine — into separate injections.
    Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Carl Schuster, who served three tours on the Lincoln’s sister ship, the USS Nimitz, in the late 1970s and 1980s, said life aboard can be isolating, especially for enlisted crew who work deep inside the 100,000-ton carriers.
    Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Practicing isolating these muscles and squeezing them when not in urgent need of a bathroom can help in the longer term when dealing with the need to go to the bathroom without a toilet readily available.
    Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 14 Aug. 2026

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“Segregating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segregating. Accessed 21 Aug. 2026.

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