something that divides, separates, or marks off the toddler insisted on a dinner plate with separators so that different foods would never touch one another
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Recent Examples of separatorRiders must find the elusive Lego brick separator — used to take apart Lego bricks — and use it to break up the Lego asteroid.—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 6 Mar. 2026 Fernández addressed it plainly afterward, pointing to the giveaways as the separator in a game that got away from his team early and never came back.—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026 Or strain it into a fat separator.—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2026 Smith-Njigba, according to Fantasy Points Data, was the second-best separator against man coverage this season among receivers with at least 240 routes run.—Noah Furtado, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for separator