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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  • Visibility separates data that can strengthen an AI workflow from data that has no business being there.
    — Nick Burling, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Action Emergency Management, who is working with the building inspector and fire officials, says a firewall separates the two structures, so residents who live on the left side do not have to evacuate.
    — Louisa Moller, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of separates
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  • The defense team plans to employ Othram to conduct a Y-STR test, a method that isolates DNA from the Y chromosome to generate a profile of a male contributor in samples where female DNA is predominant.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The field is monitored by a superheterodyne circuit that isolates different frequencies in the field and looks for changes in intensity that indicate the presence of, among other things, metal objects.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of isolates

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“Segregates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segregates. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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