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Example sentences for: separates

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An experimental process dubbed "Microsort" separates sperm carrying X chromosomes (which create girls) from those carrying Y chromosomes, so that doctors can impregnate women with embryos of the preferred gender.
The Braves and Yankees resemble the Democrats and Republicans in one more important way: In this World Series, as in most American elections, too little separates the contestants.
Besides the tattoos and piercings, which are pretty standard, I don't see much that separates today's 25-year-old from today's 45-year-old.
Or, to put it another way, what now separates the nerds from the nebbishes?
The Dayton Accord separates the country into two provinces: the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Federation and the Serbian Republika Srpska.