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These shortcomings are better understood as the challenges of overcoming past segregative practices, not as grounds for rejecting present integrative measures.

From Slate • May 11, 2020

Burger's opinion left one small avenue open to cross-district busing: a court could order it in cases where intentional segregation in one district leads to a "significant segregative effect in another district."

From Time Magazine Archive

But by a 6-to-2 vote the Supreme Court last week decided that courts cannot alter the new imbalance since "these shifts were not attributed to any segregative actions" by school officials.

From Time Magazine Archive

A whirlwind seems anything but a segregative force.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

I seem to grow as segregative as the timber-wolf.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)