desegregate
verb
de·seg·re·gate
(ˌ)dē-ˈse-gri-ˌgāt 
desegregated; desegregating; desegregates
: to eliminate segregation in
specifically
: to free of any law, provision, or practice requiring isolation of the members of a particular race in separate units
: to become desegregated
Examples of desegregate in a Sentence
efforts to desegregate the town's buses
Eventually the city's schools desegregated.
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After moving to Fort Worth in the 1950s, Davis filed a lawsuit to desegregate the Mansfield Independent School District, followed by Fort Worth ISD.
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Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2025
All of this happened eight years before the first public school in Miami-Dade County, one in Liberty City, desegregated in 1959.
—Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
The last surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina’s flagship public university in the 1950s.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
That remedy would necessarily involve busing students to desegregate the metropolitan area’s schools.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Feb. 2025
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Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Feb. 2025
All of this happened eight years before the first public school in Miami-Dade County, one in Liberty City, desegregated in 1959.
—Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
The last surviving member of a trio of African American youths who were the first to desegregate the undergraduate student body at North Carolina’s flagship public university in the 1950s.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
That remedy would necessarily involve busing students to desegregate the metropolitan area’s schools.
—Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for desegregate
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“Desegregate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desegregate. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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desegregate
verb
de·seg·re·gate
(ˈ)dē-ˈseg-ri-ˌgāt
: to eliminate segregation in
especially
: to end by law the isolation of members of a particular race in separate units
desegregate city schools
desegregation
noun
(ˌ)dē-ˌseg-ri-ˈgā-shən
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desegregate
transitive verb
de·seg·re·gate
dē-ˈse-grə-ˌgāt
desegregated; desegregating
: to eliminate segregation in
specifically
: to free from any law, provision, or practice requiring isolation of the members of a particular race in separate units
: to become desegregated
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