Sample Sentences for
segregation
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    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
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    Instantly, they shift positions so they are mixed up, no segregation.  (source)
    segregation = keeping people separate based on ethnicity
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    This change is a symptom of a new economic reality: rising residential segregation.†  (source)
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    Black folks aren't born expecting segregation, prepared from day one to follow its confining rules.†  (source)
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    Many times throughout our history, we'd been forcibly segregated, often behind walls.†  (source)
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    We don't segregate by color here.†  (source)
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    But this neatness, the neatness of Dante, was in the orderly sectioning and segregating of all levels of evil and decay.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
    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.
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    It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.†  (source)
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    Government-supported racial segregation had given way to economically enforced segregation.†  (source)
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    It was almost perfectly segregated—blacks on one side, whites on the other.†  (source)
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    If Lewis was willing to segregate his work life from his home life, why couldn't Sterling College do the same?†  (source)
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