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separated

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verb

past tense of separate
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Recent Examples of separated
Adjective
Black Pride Colorado Organizers say the world feels so separated, and pride will be used to keep everyone together. Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 11 June 2026 The separated explants, though, got busy dismantling parts of themselves that were no longer useful. Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026 Connor Bedard completed a career-best season despite missing time because of a separated shoulder, and Louis Crevier rose to the top defensive pair. Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2026 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, 30 Apr. 2026 He got separated, then un-separated, then his wife gave birth during a car crash, then his wife blew up. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026 In actuality, washing rice removes excess starch, dust, and debris to ultimately help the grains to be more separated and fluffy, rather than sticky. Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2026 Finally, Rotterdam’s Youth Jury Award went to Ah Girl by Ang Geck Geck Priscilla, about a young girl caught in a war between her separated parents. Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 6 Feb. 2026
Verb
Bitcoin has historically separated network security from the consumer payment experience. Sean Lee, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026 Honeywell Aerospace has had a difficult debut since being separated from former parent Honeywell Technologies late last month. Jeff Marks, CNBC, 27 July 2026 Children separated from their families were taught, sometimes violently, not to speak their native tongues, and many did not pass them on to their children. Kadin Mills, NPR, 26 July 2026 The former couple separated in 2020 and finalized their divorce in 2021. Jacqueline Weiss, PEOPLE, 26 July 2026 After two-and-a-half minutes, the booster separated from Starship, returning to Earth. Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 25 July 2026 Fans were forced into one corner of the facility, separated from the finish line. Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026 The couple bought a condominium together in Anaheim, California, but separated in 2015 amid a dispute over the property and their finances. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026 The pair intentionally separated while searching for a nearby historic object. Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 25 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for separated
Adjective
  • David returns as President Curtis, a divorced chief executive accurately praised by a reporter for having the best voice in presidential history.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2026
  • As a kid in Southern California, Maddox lived in separate homes with her divorced parents, with Arguelles cultivating her love for the arts.
    Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • Overall, the picture by market remained sharply divided in June.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
  • Committee term limits have divided congressional Democrats, and attempts to impose them have come up short in previous years.
    Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 20 July 2026
Verb
  • The photos also show how George tends to part his hair to his left, while William often parted his to his right.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 22 July 2026
  • Her chin-length bob was parted to the side and styled into soft waves.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026
Verb
  • Grammy rules permit an individual recording to compete in one specialized genre field, even when the album connected to that artist is classified elsewhere.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • In using the hydration breaks as an opportunity to air a few minutes of extra commercials per half, Fox’s World Cup coverage has been classified as an entirely separate entity from Telemundo’s traditional ad-free presentation.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • Hermes said the court system has a way of leaving people feeling isolated.
    Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2026
  • Rob Evans, an Army veteran whose app Hots & Cots collects reviews from service members on housing and food on military bases, told ABC News that the issues are not just isolated to Fort Hood.
    Steven Beynon, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • Vera appears differentiated in the crowded CPU market, with Nvidia claiming more efficiency and better performance especially for agentic AI workloads.
    Karl Freund, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Where 70mm really differentiated itself from 35mm, however, was in the sound.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • Price discovery for a single company would end up quietly split across several incompatible venues.
    Mike Cahill, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • However, People reported the former couple will split their assets, including homes, cars, an aircraft and any intellectual property.
    Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • With the genome sequencing, the researchers estimated that the bacteria in the two urine samples diverged from a common ancestor one to two years before the woman’s current state.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2026
  • Their interests have diverged over a number of issues, including oil quotas.
    Garrett Haake, NBC news, 22 July 2026

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“Separated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separated. Accessed 30 Jul. 2026.

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