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How to pronounce segregation in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms sequestration
Type of separation
Derivation segregate, segregationist
Type Words
Synonyms separatism
Type of social structure, social organization, social organisation, structure, social system
Has types white separatism, de facto segregation, de jure segregation, purdah, racial segregation, sex segregation
Derivation segregate, segregationist
Type Words
Type of organic process, biological process

Examples of segregation

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From a distance of almost 70 years, he speaks calmly about Jim Crow segregation.
From the stltoday.com
Les Easter said he let his father talk, and military segregation didn't come up.
From the stltoday.com
Those were the days of enforced segregation, sit-ins, bus boycotts and the like.
From the tennessean.com
Only in 1944 were complaints raised about the segregation situation in the city.
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This period saw the end of racial segregation with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Too young to have experienced segregation, he has thrived in white institutions.
From the nytimes.com
State-enforced segregation was not wrong because separateness is wrong, however.
From the huffingtonpost.com
Racial segregation is the separation of humans into racial groups in daily life.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This event was when Farmer began to dedicate his life to the end of segregation.
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More examples
  • (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
  • A social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
  • The act of segregating or sequestering; "sequestration of the jury"
  • (segregated) separated or isolated from others or a main group; "a segregated school system"; "a segregated neighborhood"
  • (Segregate (taxonomy)) In taxonomy, a segregate, or a segregate taxon is created when a taxon is split off, from another taxon. This other taxon will be better known, usually bigger, and will continue to exist, even after the segregate taxon has been split off. ...
  • The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people the may be voluntary or enforced by law; Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process; ...
  • (segregate) To separate, used especially of social policies that directly or indirectly keep races or ethnic groups apart; Separate; select; Separated from others of the same kind
  • (segregate) distinct, kept apart
  • (Segregated) An account with an investment adviser holding separate funds to be used only for agreed-upon purposes.