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 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 The two common issues are the N80 valve which is a purge valve and the oil separator which is basically a fancy PCV valve. —

John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for separator

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Because octopuses can be aggressive, the researchers installed a divider in the tank with a few small holes so the pair could warm up to each other.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 2 Apr. 2026
To check whether progesterone was the trigger, the researchers removed the female from the barrier tank and replaced her with conical plastic tubes coated with various chemical stimuli, sliding them into the small holes of the wall divider.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2026