divide
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Reaction across online forums has highlighted a divide among users about whether the update will get more people using Bumble - or if it makes it "just like any other dating app".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
“I thought, it would be amazing if I could divide this project by the process of the kitchen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Income inequality and the wealth divide in America have widened dramatically, and so has the gap in longevity and health between rich and poor.”
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Mediators said the main negotiators quickly embraced a proposal to divide traffic into an inbound lane near Iran and an outbound lane near Oman, The Wall Street Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
No longer was it necessary to divide by zeros.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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How the winning and losing candidates—and those candidates’ supporters—treat each other over the next few months will help determine whether those divides heal in time for November.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
This method divides the temperature record into separate periods and objectively identifies when the rate of warming appears to change.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Ever since Disney introduced Lightning Lanes in 2021, debate has raged over whether letting people pay for shorter waits is savvy crowd management or nickel-and-diming that divides people by income.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
And that geographical imbalance helped further fuel ideologically divides.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
“At the sacred threshing-floor, when they are winnowing, she herself, Demeter of the corn-ripe yellow hair, divides the grain and the chaff in the rush of the wind, and the heap of chaff grows white.”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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If no one comes forward, civil law states that hidden treasure on someone else's property be divided between the finder and the property's owner.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The controversy around Arday appears to have divided the Cambridge campus and wider academia.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Union households support the measure, while non-union families are evenly divided about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Shares of Super Micro Computer rose after the server manufacturer’s fourth-quarter results beat analysts’ forecasts — and Wall Street is divided.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Farmer sympathized with the needs of the Ministry of Health, but he still hoped that the loan could be divided fifty-fifty.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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A day after being forced out, Fedorov on Thursday held an extraordinary press conference at which he accused the commander of dividing the country.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
At his own stampede speech, Hogan called separatism "a poison" dividing families across the province.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The warehouse is right on Indiana Street, the dividing line between Boyle Heights, which is in the city of Los Angeles, and unincorporated East L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Many cancers, however, activate the enzyme through mutations in the telomerase gene known as TERT, allowing cancer cells to keep dividing.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026
The window rolls back up, dividing him from me, before I have a chance to add anything else.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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