as in divider
something that divides, separates, or marks off the toddler insisted on a dinner plate with separators so that different foods would never touch one another

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Recent Examples of separator The two biggest separators in a close game: Quality of quarterback play and overall team discipline (a coaching hallmark). Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025 That’s thanks to 980 QuantumScape’s QSE-5 cells, which use a lithium-metal anode and a ceramic separator in place of the 18-kWh battery pack that’s equipped with 1,152 cylindrical 21700 cells, which the stock moto usually packs. New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2025 While Spector suggests most, if not all, people could benefit from the muscle activation separators provide. Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2025 As modern music-making increasingly integrates AI, more artists will turn to tools that streamline their solo productions — from stem separators and vocal changers that can tweak existing tracks to sample creators and full-song generators that replicate the entire creative process. Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for separator
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Noun
  • For suitcases, this may include dual main compartments with zippered mesh closures and compression straps, a pocketed divider, removable laundry or shoe bags, and interior zippered pockets of various sizes to keep your smallest essentials in order.
    Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2025
  • An initial investigation indicates that the overcrowding within the temple occurred when a metal divider meant to maintain the line of worshipers broke, resulting in a crowd surge into the building, which ultimately led to the railing to break, per the AP.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Prine’s legacy at Stella’s is remembered with a colorful mural painted on a large fence at the back of the restaurant’s courtyard.
    Ken Perrotte, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
  • One of the coaches was driving when the van left the road, broke through a fence and landed into a canal, Serbian outlets Večernje novosti and Danas reported.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025
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  • On a recent day, a patron drank a Guinness at the bar amid walls are covered in funeral notices from people who had come for a drink after saying that final goodbye.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Kimpton Armory Hotel — Montana The Art Deco building in Bozeman was originally constructed in 1941 to serve as the Montana National Guard’s armory, featuring 18-inch-thick walls, a rifle range, a soundproof music room and space for military vehicles.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Separator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separator. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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