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partition

[pahr-tish-uhn, per-] / pɑrˈtɪʃ ən, pər- /




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The film, whose title means "I will return", tells the story of a romance that survives nearly eight decades, inspired by real-life accounts from families affected by the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan.

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

It survived colonial rule, a bloodied partition, the tumult of independence and Delhi's transformation into a sprawling megacity.

From BBC May 25, 2026

Three years ago, he did not know the Punjabi language or what happened during the India and Pakistan partition in 1947 after British rule ended.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 21, 2026

The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.

From Slate Mar. 6, 2026

It was late one night that I heard him calling to me, speaking softly, around the wooden partition between our cages.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

"At shelters... there are no walls or partitions between people. It's very congested."

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Moveable partitions divide the massive space: the front houses the Judith Center, the gender equality nonprofit that Andrews launched in 2024, while the back serves as her office, studio and archive.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 27, 2026

The furniture and partitions were made from plastics and laminates, so they cost far less.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

The BBC has previously documented how two partitions have been constructed in Gaza since the start of the current war.

From BBC Nov. 28, 2024

“He’s just a little mouse. Besides, we haven’t figured out how to make the partitions stand up.”

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary

Just off the yard, this small, dingy room contained 10 partitioned payphone-style phones along three of the walls.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

The fall of El-Fasher gave paramilitaries control over all five state capitals in Darfur, raising fears that Sudan would effectively be partitioned along an east-west axis.

From Barron's Nov. 5, 2025

It was partitioned by a huge black grand piano on which was mounted a large, silver-framed autographed picture of Walt Disney himself.

From Salon Mar. 29, 2025

The forest was partitioned into different areas and given biblical place names, such as Judea, Bethlehem and Nazareth.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2024

Bill and Woody contributed a blanket each and partitioned off the first room: one side for Bill and Tomi, one side for Woody and Chizu and their baby girl.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

Are we looking at a vision of growth or the partitioning of community?

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2026

Holtz's study, "Bringing up baby: preliminary exploration of the effect of ontogenetic niche partitioning in dinosaurs versus long-term maternal care in mammals in their respective ecosystems," was published in the Italian Journal of Geosciences.

From Science Daily Feb. 27, 2026

And Starbucks Korea warned this month that a minority of people are going further than just laptops, such as bringing in desktop monitors, printers, partitioning off desks or leaving tables unattended for long periods.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2025

Sauper also spends time with a group of American missionaries who are partitioning the land in their own way.

From New York Times Jan. 30, 2024

Aristotle was wrong in his partitioning of male and female contributions into “material” and “message,” but abstractly, he had captured one of the essential truths about the nature of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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