SEGREGATING Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

segregating

verb

present participle of segregate

as in separating

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 segregating His surprising case for segregation is that prisons are self-segregating, and white people still have power in the yard. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025 The organizers refused to stop at cities that insisted on segregating crowds. — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026 Letting the very small number of transgender students in Minnesota play on their school sports teams doesn't harm anyone, but segregating them does. — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025 One example of this would be segregating cash into envelopes labeled for different purposes. — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 20 Oct. 2025 There was no legal basis for segregating students of Mexican descent from other students. — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026 Federal prosecutors discovered that the campaign filings showed a pattern of segregating the kickbacks from the district attorney’s staff in a later campaign disclosure hoping nobody would follow up. — John O’Hara, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026 The proposal would assign a DOJ team from another district to examine device backups and cloud data obtained from an attorney, segregating any privileged content. — Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025

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Khushboo Gupta, vice president of policy at PETA India, said the aesthetic appeal of live elephants doesn’t justify shackling, beating and separating them from their families.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
This process involves removing fuel, managing radiological controls, separating the hull, demilitarizing, and recycling.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026

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