segregate
verb (used with object)
to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate.
are segregating
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present progressiveof segregate.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“People criticise women-only gyms by saying Muslim women are segregating themselves,” Safari says.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2018
People are segregating themselves into different emotionally toned enclaves – anger here, hopefulness and trust there.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2016
Many Harvard business students and readers were especially troubled by Section X, and the idea that even within the extremely elite confines of one of the nation’s premier business schools, the ultrawealthy are segregating themselves.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2013
We also computed the direction of selection, DoS, which is positive with adaptive selection, zero under neutrality and negative when weakly deleterious or new nearly neutral mutations are segregating.
From Nature ● Feb. 8, 2012
