How to Use separable in a Sentence
separable
adjective
- His religious and political beliefs are not always separable from each other.
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At the same time, solid-propellant rockets would blast the separable cap away from the MEM.
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David S. F. Portree,
WIRED,
25 Oct. 2012
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In other words, Solms wants to move past the model of mind that sees clear-eyed thought as somehow separable from our baser feelings.
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Washington Post,
26 Feb. 2021
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Their build features a 12cm-tall space shuttle complete with a launch pad and three separable stages.
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Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
18 Oct. 2017
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This means that, in practice, the problem of gay parenting and the problem of the lab baby aren’t fully separable.
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Bethel McGrew,
National Review,
25 Mar. 2022
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As this might suggest, Trump fans’ economic and cultural worries are not as separable as the Democrats hope.
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The Economist,
2 Nov. 2017
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Nowotny and his team have found that separable odors aren’t perceived at the same time; rather, the coffee and croissant odors are processed very rapidly in alternation.
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Quanta Magazine,
18 Sep. 2018
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The Russian people and elite can still calculate that their fates are readily separable from his.
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WSJ,
25 Jan. 2022
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Second, the tent canopy and the fly can be pitched and packed simultaneously thanks to a connected (but still separable) design.
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Adrienne Donica,
Popular Mechanics,
3 Dec. 2020
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In my view, our reticence stems from a belief that investments and values are separable.
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Bill McKibben,
The New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2020
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But Hendren’s project also has a kind of deep beauty that is neither separable from design nor fully accountable to it.
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Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2020
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But Maria Brumm makes a good argument for why the risk-communication & quake-prediction sides of l'Aquila aren't separable.
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Ed Yong,
Discover Magazine,
27 Oct. 2012
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Meck believes there are two separate brain areas for those functions, though most likely not separable.
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Alan Burdick,
Discover Magazine,
19 Aug. 2014
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All of which raises a pertinent question: Is Trumpism separable from Donald Trump?
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Daniel Henninger,
WSJ,
3 Mar. 2021
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In any event, here as elsewhere, power over grants of citizenship is separable from power over migration.
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Ilya Somin,
Washington Post,
21 May 2017
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Most of the animals sold in such markets are produced by smallholders, not large industrial concerns, but the two are not easily separable.
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Laura Spinney,
Time,
13 Apr. 2020
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In other words, there is a conservative tradition that is clearly separable and distinct from Trumpism.
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Jonathan Chait,
Daily Intelligencer,
24 Oct. 2017
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There are also separable enamel and silver-finish brass heart necklaces and rings (to share with your best friend), leather dog collars, leashes with waste bag holders, wallets, card holders, metal flasks and other accoutrements for humans and pets.
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Danielle Directo-Meston,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 July 2022
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But the results from Gallant’s team suggest that these different networks might be too intimately intertwined to be separable.
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Quanta Magazine,
8 Feb. 2022
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Physical activity is a non-separable part of this experience, and it's couched within a traditional role playing game (RPG) game design style.
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Sandra Gonzalez,
CNN,
26 Mar. 2020
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Each iteration slots into the complex order of things known as Stevie Nicks; each era separable but contiguous, all routed through her mild witchery and intense American mysticism.
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Jill Spivey Caddell,
Longreads,
26 May 2022
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This was the discrepancy that motivated my original curiosity about DWeb and Web3 as entwined by separable strands.
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Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
4 Oct. 2022
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As several commenters noted, an extra layer is not necessary for this problem — the seven outputs are linearly separable.
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Quanta Magazine,
3 Nov. 2017
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The disconcerting power of this vision, and of the mathematical model which underlay it, emerged from the idea that weather, encoded as information to be exchanged in advance of its happening, could be finally separable from experience.
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Barry Sheils,
Smithsonian,
18 May 2017
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The disconcerting power of this vision, and of the mathematical model which underlay it, emerged from the idea that weather, encoded as information to be exchanged in advance of its happening, could be finally separable from experience.
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Barry Sheils,
Smithsonian,
18 May 2017
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This is known as technical-social dualism, the idea that the technical and social dimensions of engineering problems are readily separable and remain distinct throughout the problem-definition and solution process.
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Grace Wickerson,
Scientific American,
24 Feb. 2022
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In the 1960s, new psychological research began to collect evidence that positive and negative emotions were in fact separable, and as further research observed, could be felt simultaneously, and also in rapid succession.
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Arthur C. Brooks,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2023
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Its exaggerations are wilder, its hallucinations are colder, and its physical realities and dramatic specifics are even less separable from the elements of fantasy.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Aug. 2020
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At the same time, though, other phenomena are also often invoked to explain the rejection of science on issues like climate change, evolution, and vaccinations—phenomena that may (or may not) be fully separable from motivated reasoning.
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Keith Kloor,
Discover Magazine,
6 June 2013
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This insight developed the principle of separable, single-threaded leadership — when a leader or dedicated team assumes clear, unambiguous ownership of a single outcome with minimum reliance or impact on others.
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Kartik Mandaville,
Forbes,
14 June 2021
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