Thesaurus results for SEPARATOR

separator

noun

ˈse-pə-ˌrā-tər

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 Riders must find the elusive Lego brick separator — used to take apart Lego bricks — and use it to break up the Lego asteroid. —

Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 6 Mar. 2026 Fernández addressed it plainly afterward, pointing to the giveaways as the separator in a game that got away from his team early and never came back. —

C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026 Or strain it into a fat separator. —

Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2026 Smith-Njigba, according to Fantasy Points Data, was the second-best separator against man coverage this season among receivers with at least 240 routes run. —

Noah Furtado, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for separator

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Noun

Aerial footage showed the victim's car parked next to the center divider.

— Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
This is a room divider with hangers; on top is a mirror in the shape of his silhouette that sits in his apartment.

— Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026