SEGREGATE Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

segregate

verb

ˈse-gri-ˌgāt

Definition of segregate

as in to isolate

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 segregate The International Olympic Committee announced that South Africa would be barred from the summer Olympics in Tokyo due to the country’s apartheid policies that segregated sports. — USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026 Ten transgender women are currently segregated in the same unit at a prison in Fort Worth, Texas. — ABC News, 29 July 2026 His resulting exploration tracks the ways in which Black residents were effectively segregated, through racial covenants and redlining, and overpoliced. — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 July 2026 The service still segregates music from podcasts, unlike Spotify. — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 20 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for segregate

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The possibility of being isolated from their congregation can be a concern for Followers because of how much their lives revolve around extended family and church.

— Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 25 Aug. 2026
For the thousands who remain in the dark and feel isolated, the giveaway helped.

— Chris Tye, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

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The team analyzed the corridor over the long term and used seasonal-trend decomposition using LOESS, a statistical method that helped separate seasonal fluctuations from longer-term settlement.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
The bridge connects two settlements in a valley in northwest Rwanda that are separated by the river.

— Fatma Tanis, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026

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