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  • Instantly, they shift positions so they are mixed up, no segregation.  (source)
    segregation = keeping people separate based on ethnicity
  • Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.  (source)
    segregation = keeping people separate due to discrimination
  • This change is a symptom of a new economic reality: rising residential segregation.†  (source)
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  • Government-supported racial segregation had given way to economically enforced segregation.†  (source)
  • The other women who lived there— I knew they would be women because at BYU all housing was segregated by gender—had not yet returned from the Christmas holiday.†  (source)
  • If Lewis was willing to segregate his work life from his home life, why couldn't Sterling College do the same?†  (source)
  • Memphis could make you wonder why anyone ever bothered to create laws segregating the races.†  (source)
  • Even when productive industry is free, the fixed character which belongs to aristocratic nations gradually segregates all the persons who practise the same art, till they form a distinct class, always composed of the same families, whose members are all known to each other, and amongst whom a public opinion of their own and a species of corporate pride soon spring up.†  (source)
  • Another bill, to levy penalizing fines against any church holding nonsegregated services, was, he contended, in flagrant contradiction to the First Amendment of the Constitution.†  (source)
    nonsegregated = not kept separate
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonsegregated means not and reverses the meaning of segregated. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
  • It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.†  (source)
  • Of course Lilian and Sam had heard of apartheid, but they were shaken to see racial segregation up close.†  (source)
  • In the segregated Mexican camp, with my grandfather, she lived much like the characters in the story.†  (source)
  • We don't segregate by color here.†  (source)
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