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as in divided
to set or force apart
we tried to separate the gluey pages, but they were stuck tight
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as in parted
to go or move in different directions from a central point
the searchers separated in order to cover more ground
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3
as in classified
to arrange or assign according to type
separate the students by reading ability
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as in isolated
to set or keep apart from others
separated the injured calf from the herd
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as in differentiated
to understand or point out the difference in
trying to separate science from religion on one specific point
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Recent Examples of separated
Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
The call on Thursday evening gave Qnity management an opportunity to provide additional insight into the results and offer their own outlook for the separated company, which on Monday began normal trading on the New York Stock Exchange and joined the S & P 500.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2025
Opponents have said the new 10-foot-wide vehicle lanes are too narrow for fire trucks to navigate; the back-in parking is far too difficult for high school students to use; and the separated bike lanes are hazardous and unnecessary.
—Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2025
Loops are smaller structures within them that do the finer-scale work of bringing separated parts of the sequence together.
—Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
This design consists of an aluminum (Al) foil anode current collector, an S8 cathode, sodium dicyanamide (NaDCA) in a non-flammable chloroaluminate electrolyte, separated with a glass fiber.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 9 Jan. 2026
Tarr’s revolution in form, however, cannot be separated from the radical humanity of his filmmaking.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
While first stage successfully separated, the second stage engine did not get it into orbit.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2026
French Gates’ Pivotal Philanthropies now finds itself in the ranks of philanthropy power players, just over a year after Gates and French Gates separated their philanthropic efforts in May 2024.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
Spurs forward Julian Champagnie immediately shoved Vanderbilt as Fox remained between the players, trying to keep them separated.
—Oc Register, 8 Jan. 2026
Kidman and Urban, who separated in September 2025 after 19 years, finalized their divorce on January 6—just three months after Kidman officially filed.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 8 Jan. 2026
Upon landing, the men separated and tried to flee but most were captured that same day.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
Any interaction, including dialogues and reunions of separated families, between the two Koreas have been suspended in recent years.
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Per the Hindu, Das' head had been separated from his body in the attack.
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Helen, who has the most solicitous husband in the world, believes that divorced people give up too easily.—
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The two divorced in 1962, in part because Bardot had an affair with Glenn Ford.—
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Iran’s opposition is weak, divided, largely in exile.—
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But our fragmented media landscape and the dominance of social media have left us polarized and divided.—
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The full cut is completed with soft layers that are subtly parted in the front to bring more movement.—
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Her long, dark hair was parted in the center and styled in soft waves.—
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In 2019, officers went to the home twice while their son Nick was living there — once for a call coded as a welfare check and once for a call classified as mental health–related.—
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The Justice Department issued a warrant to seize the ship over its sanctions violations for transporting oil on behalf of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is classified as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the State Department.—
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Longbow designed the cabin to keep drivers involved rather than isolated.—
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Public conversations about loneliness tend to collapse a distinction between feeling lonely and being socially isolated—the latter is an objective state that doesn’t inevitably mean a person feels the negative emotions of loneliness.—
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Human hematopoietic stem cells successfully engrafted, proliferated, and differentiated, closely mimicking how bone marrow functions in the human body.—
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Hind’s audio was differentiated in green font.—
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Arsenal’s first half in the 4-1 home win against Aston Villa a week ago — when the visitors continuously broke through the middle of the pitch — was the perfect example of what happens when their partnership is split up, in this case by Rice’s knee injury.—
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In the aftermath, Venezuelan society became further split between the wealthy, who wanted to work with the US, and the working class, who sought autonomy from the US.—
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Lam kept making new highs while RSI diverged lower.—
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But the school left the conference in the 1960s as its academic ambitions and football capabilities diverged.—
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“Separated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separated. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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