as in separating
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 segregating
Federal prosecutors discovered that the campaign filings showed a pattern of segregating the kickbacks from the district attorney’s staff in a later campaign disclosure hoping nobody would follow up.
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John O’Hara,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
There was no legal basis for segregating students of Mexican descent from other students.
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Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
His surprising case for segregation is that prisons are self-segregating, and white people still have power in the yard.
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Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
29 Oct. 2025
The proposal would assign a DOJ team from another district to examine device backups and cloud data obtained from an attorney, segregating any privileged content.
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Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
One example of this would be segregating cash into envelopes labeled for different purposes.
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Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
20 Oct. 2025
Letting the very small number of transgender students in Minnesota play on their school sports teams doesn't harm anyone, but segregating them does.
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Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
8 Oct. 2025
John O’Hara,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
There was no legal basis for segregating students of Mexican descent from other students.
—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
His surprising case for segregation is that prisons are self-segregating, and white people still have power in the yard.
—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
29 Oct. 2025
The proposal would assign a DOJ team from another district to examine device backups and cloud data obtained from an attorney, segregating any privileged content.
—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
One example of this would be segregating cash into envelopes labeled for different purposes.
—
Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
20 Oct. 2025
Letting the very small number of transgender students in Minnesota play on their school sports teams doesn't harm anyone, but segregating them does.
—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for segregating
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Khushboo Gupta, vice president of policy at PETA India, said the aesthetic appeal of live elephants doesn’t justify shackling, beating and separating them from their families.
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This process involves removing fuel, managing radiological controls, separating the hull, demilitarizing, and recycling.
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Both sisters agreed that sharing the experience was a blessing, because pregnancy can sometimes be very isolating.
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Her direction here wisely emphasizes the actors, and possibly overdoes it with the mirrors — lotta symbolically reflective surfaces and isolating frames within frames — but there’s never the sensation that the person behind the camera is winging it.
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“Segregating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segregating. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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