segregate
verb (used with object)
to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate.
segregative
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a word derived from
segregate.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
A whirlwind seems anything but a segregative force.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
When physiological isolation becomes associated with natural selection, or any other form of homogamy, the segregative power of both is augmented.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by George John Romanes
