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- adjective of a person or thing
Separated orisolated from others, or from another group. - adjective of an institution Having
access restricted to certain groups, orexcluding certain groups. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
segregate .
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- adjective separated or isolated from others or a main group
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Examples
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Associated Press regarding what I term a segregated coast guard.
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Looks like the whole gender apartheid thing is a more recent phenomenon, although women have always been kind of segregated from the men.
"Violence [Against Women] Is Necessary" « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Past as prologue: Kathryn Stockett's novel is about black maids in segregated Mississippi.
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The first from Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of State and Stanford academic, it's called "Extraordinary Ordinary People" and it chronicles her life before the Bush administration growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama.
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These have lessened, to an extent, but the groups still live in segregated communities.
The Volokh Conspiracy » So a Libertarian and a Liberal Walk into a Bar 2010
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Set in segregated Mississippi circa 1962, The Help tells the story of a young white woman named Skeeter who befriends a group of black maids and records their lives — the white children they care for and love, the bosses who often, but not always, treat them like dirt.
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The first from Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of State and Stanford academic, it's called "Extraordinary Ordinary People" and it chronicles her life before the Bush administration growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama.
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The first from Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of State and Stanford academic, it's called "Extraordinary Ordinary People" and it chronicles her life before the Bush administration growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama.
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The first from Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of State and Stanford academic, it's called "Extraordinary Ordinary People" and it chronicles her life before the Bush administration growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama.
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Kemp had grown up in segregated America and saw things his grandchildren never would.
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