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Synonyms
aloneness, insulation, isolation, privacy, secludedness, seclusion, separateness, sequestration, solitariness, solitude
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Some of those concerns were documented in a 2017 report by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General, including possible misuse of segregation. — Erin Donaghue, CBS News, "ICE review found failures in care of mentally ill detainee who died by suicide," 22 Aug. 2019 Our highway planning was borne from a shameful history of racial segregation. — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, "I canāt wrap my feeble American brain around this massive bike parking garage in the Netherlands," 20 Aug. 2019 Cooperās seminal text, A Voice From the South: By a Black Woman of the South, addressed issues including educational disparities, womenās suffrage, representations of black women in literature, and the pernicious effects of segregation. — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, "How Black Suffragettes Subverted the Domestic Sphere," 18 Aug. 2019 When the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling against school segregation, black children began attending formerly all-white schools. — Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, "More mentors, more support: Group presents ideas for increasing number of black teachers in Baltimore schools," 20 June 2019 The age was characterized by imperial wars, an epidemic of rape and lynching, the emergence of the legal and social apparatus of racial segregation, and antiblack racial laws that inspired the Nazisā Nuremberg Laws. — Longreads, "A Minor Figure," 20 July 2019 Despite the restrictions of segregation, Bartholomew rose to become a pop music icon, said the Rev. Tony Ricard, who led the funeral mass and joined in the spirited dancing on the church steps as the crowd followed the casket outside afterward. — Washington Post, "Rock ānā roll pioneer Dave Bartholomew laid to rest," 8 July 2019 Georgiaās Herman Talmadge and Mississippiās James Eastlandāboth ardent defenders of segregation. — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, "America, We Need to Talk," 20 June 2019 According to the religious segregation of Belfast, the Shankill Road was (and remains) Protestant territory. — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, "Witnessing the Moon Landing in Ireland, at the Start of the Troubles," 20 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'segregation.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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Note: De jure segregation is illegal.
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