segregates

verb

present tense third-person singular of segregate
as in separates
to set or keep apart from others the sick cows were segregated from the remainder of the herd

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Recent Examples of segregates The service still segregates music from podcasts, unlike Spotify. — Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 20 July 2026 The crowd was about 50-50 housed and unhoused — the invisible veil that normally segregates these two worlds had been lifted. — Brian Barth, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026 But researchers say not every district re-segregates once court oversight ends. — Silas Allen, Dallas Morning News, 19 Jan. 2026 In Israel, the literary world censors, silences, distorts, segregates and thus collaborates with the atrocities perpetrated in Gaza. — Uriel Kon september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025 This core-mantle boundary segregates two very different geologic realms. — Quanta Magazine, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for segregates
  1. separates
  2. isolates
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  • The Day-One Problem When a business unit separates from its parent, the strategy, customer relationships and distribution channels go with it.
    — Sami Nomair, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Figuring out how to plan weekly meals without a full kitchen is what separates a semester fueled by vending machine potato chips from one where your brain actually works in class.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of separates
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  • Rather than chart her full life, the Hindi-language film, starring Sneha Kumari in the title role, isolates a single 48-hour standoff in which 2,000 armed police and paramilitary personnel surrounded a village to capture her, then 17 years old.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The camera isolates everyone’s hands, the plating, and the micro-adjustments.
    — Henry Metz, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of isolates

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“Segregates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segregates. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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