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apartness

  • a word derived from apart.

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Supreme Court historically used Asian Americans’ supposedly implacable foreignness to justify greater, institutionally enforced apartness.

From Slate May 26, 2026

Or, rather, they are romantic, their particular brand of social apartness catnip to moody adolescents.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 5, 2022

"You just have to maintain that slight apartness so you can be there when they need it and pull back when they don't," she says.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2018

This apartness continues at the pool, where he sits away from the crowd, in a corner with Hank and Walt.

From Salon May 29, 2017

Now she was aware of a sharp apartness, a separation, not from Atticus and Henry merely.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

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