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to set or keep apart from others
the sick cows were segregated from the remainder of the herd
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Recent Examples of segregated
Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
Shirley was buried in a segregated graveyard under live oaks, on a bayou.
—Jesmyn Ward, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
The public schools were segregated, and for decades there was no Black high school at all.
—Jonathan Entin, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
The Mission-style burrito, with its monstrous circumference and segregated ingredients, strikes me as a variation best loved by the people who grew up loving it.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
Shirley was buried in a segregated graveyard under live oaks, on a bayou.
—Jesmyn Ward, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
Until the 1990s, many of New Orleans' famed Mardi Gras krewes were segregated.
—Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
The public schools were segregated, and for decades there was no Black high school at all.
—Jonathan Entin, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for segregated
Adjective
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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
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Whereas within cool-guy culture, things are a little bit more separated.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The transportation problems were not isolated to one delegation.—
Tim Genske,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Patrick Bamford, the existing No 9, had been publicly isolated from Farke’s squad by this point, but was still on the books, of course.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
17 May 2026
Adjective
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His is a more enlightened era, but Hannes, lonely and withdrawn, doesn’t share his classmates’ interest in campus sit-ins and free love.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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Lost was the fact that a grid-connection request is just the start of a multiyear process that involves permitting and legal review and often ends in withdrawn or downsized projects.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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The trial was a madly raucous media event, requiring many weeks and a sequestered jury.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
1 Feb. 2026
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In the second clinical trial, not yet published, 36 sequestered volunteers ate an additional 1,000 calories a day when on the ultraprocessed food diet, according to a midpoint analysis of the data by Hall.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The conservation effort is also rooted in faith as the cloistered community is inspired in part by Laudato Si', a 2015 encyclical from Pope Francis calling for environmental stewardship.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026
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Before the rise of Aventura, bachata — Dominican folk music of the working class, which traces its roots to the 1960s — was largely a cloistered concern.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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All three companies sell products that aren’t day-to-day essentials, such as concert tickets, river cruises and insulated water bottles.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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Beds are plush, and rooms are well insulated from outside noise, which matters in a city that rarely quiets down.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 May 2026
Adjective
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For bigger crews, there’s a three-bedroom Coral Villa and the swirling Perlah Villa complex, which comes with space for up to nine guests and has a pool, dining pavilion, and secluded beachfront lawn for barbecues.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 May 2026
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Other award-winning sites include a place with a drive-in movie theater near Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, geodesic domes in Texas, safari tents in Kentucky, a secluded tent getaway in the Catskills of New York and a converted school bus outside Lake Huron in Michigan.—
Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
18 May 2026
Adjective
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Written by Cameron Alexander, Heart of the Beast follows a former Army Special Forces Soldier and his retired combat dog who battle for survival after a plane crash deep in the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
13 May 2026
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Social Security benefits – paid mostly to recipients who are older or retired – are typically scheduled to go out on Wednesdays.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
12 May 2026
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“Segregated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segregated. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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