separateness

Example Sentences

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Parran spoke at the conference about the need to think beyond “the separateness of preventative and curative efforts to reduce death and disease” because all health efforts “are parts of the same entity.”

From Salon • Mar. 6, 2025

For all its geographic separateness, the federation coheres at moments like this.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023

“Not only are we physically separated from one another, we are culturally, socially and politically separated from each other, and the end to that separateness is not in sight,” Herzog said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2022

The normal way we act in the world fosters an attitude of separateness and causes us to act against nature or in ways that resist the natural way.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The fact is that only in private—with intimates—is separateness from the crowd a prerequisite for individuality.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez