SEGREGATION Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

segregation

noun

ˌse-gri-ˈgā-shən

Definition of segregation

as in solitude

the state of being alone or kept apart from others the segregation of voters while casting their ballots is meant to preserve political privacy

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Recent Examples of segregation The street has long served as the racial segregation line of Kansas City. — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026 Hannah-Jones has written a stunning essay, her most emotionally wrenching work since her 2014 investigation into school segregation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2026 Uncontrolled hypertension concentrates in neighborhoods shaped by segregation, disinvestment, food insecurity and inadequate access to trusted care. — Garth Walker, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026 Previously, Electrek reported that Black Tesla workers at the facility were subjected to racial prejudice by way of wage discrimination, segregation, and racial slurs. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for segregation

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If the first season is about solitude, the second is about the end of love — what happens when two people sleep separately, still care for one another, but are no longer in love.

— Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
Written in the solitude of endless tour nights following the release of Something, his fourth album exists in the liminal space between pop stardom and the quiet solitude of a hotel room on tour.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026

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Curie's initial Nobel was for physics, but the second, for chemistry in 1911, recognized her work on polonium and the isolation of pure radium.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Fair Ones is set in the aftermath of their longtime friend Claire’s death, as Mara and Jen, two Brooklyn women in their forties, are off kilter, cycling through shock, numbness, denial, distraction, anger, isolation, regret, depression.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026

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