SEGREGATING Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

segregating

verb

present participle of segregate

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 One example of this would be segregating cash into envelopes labeled for different purposes. — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 7 July 2026 The organizers refused to stop at cities that insisted on segregating crowds. — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026 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. — 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 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

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Set within its own natural lagoon on the southernmost tip of the Raa Atoll, the ocean stretches out as far as the eye can see, with hardly a blip separating sea, horizon, and sky.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026
A couple years before that, the state began disaggregating data on Asian and Pacific Islanders, by separating Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander groups.

— Sharon Udasin, Sun Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026

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The individual was isolating, and officials were reaching out to anyone who had been exposed, the county health department said.

— Finch Walker, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
Existing defenses attempt to stop such attacks by wiping or isolating the processor’s prediction machinery before predictions are used.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026

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