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We eventually learn what it is that has kept Stella and Gerry in a state of deepening apartness.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

The white-minority government there had legalised an extreme system of racial segregation, known as apartheid - or apartness - in 1948.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2025

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

And yet even paternal ardor has apartness wound into it.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 20, 2015

But his training had not yet begun and already, upon leaving the Auditorium, he felt the apartness.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry