segregate
verb (used with object)
to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate.
segregates
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present tense formof segregate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The factory accepts waste material which it then sorts and segregates.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2023
Admiral Ring renewed that effort last June, telling reporters that the current top-secret prison where the military segregates high-value detainees, called Camp 7, would become inadequate as the prisoners aged.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
The Douglas County Jail has three pods for men in custody, which segregates inmates by minimum, medium and maximum risk classifications.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 16, 2016
The conventional narrative of U.S. history routinely segregates the “Indian wars” as a subspecialization within the dubious category “the West.”
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2014
Life breaks up this Neuter counterpoise, and progressively unlocks and segregates, and thus reveals and specialises the inherent attributes of Sex Phenomena of Duality characterise not Living Matter only, but Inorganic Matter too.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
