separate_out has definitions from the field of chemistry
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[ verb ] (chemistry) remove by passing through a filter

Examples

"filter out the impurities"

Used in print

(Marian Nester, "New Methods of Parapsychology"...)

Now when , so_to_speak , the cream has been skimmed_off , and the items in the successful categories separated_out , the sitter can be asked to consider and rate only this concentrated `` cream '' , where the sensitive is at her best .

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