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Especially rewarding are the book’s first two “acts,” which cleave to Apollonius’ epic to sketch a sort of Bildungsroman of the young Medea and render her own perspective on the events that follow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

They are free to rein in the state legislature as long as they cleave reasonably close to their state constitutions and do not step outside interpretation into pure improvisation.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2025

When it arrives, in simple letters against a black backdrop, it doesn’t so much introduce the film as cleave it in half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025

The Scottish Premiership leaders enjoyed almost 70% possession but struggled to cleave out clear chances against a Croatian side hampered by injuries.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2024

Felicia watched the thickset butchers cleave and carve the flesh like sculptors, could scarcely tell them apart, in fact, from the marbled slabs of beef at their elbows.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

“Hey There Little Insect,” an impish folk-rocker, begs bugs not to bite, incorporating Bo Diddley’s signature clave rhythm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Hints of Cuban clave rhythms, Tin Pan Alley harmonies, Jewish melodies and piano licks swim through its overarching Romantic theme.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

But Mark Morris, perched on a stool and clacking out the rhythm with a pair of clave sticks, finds plenty to quarrel with as he oversees this rehearsal of his new work.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2022

You can see why radio likes it—the song is seriously insinuating, milking a jazzy Afro-Cuban piano clave better than anything this side of ’90s house.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2018

“It is of needcessity,” said Ricos, and then his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth, and Buttertub made the confession for both.

From Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

Another two in the fifth end cleaved open the advantage again before the teams traded points in the next two to leave Sweden needing four in the final end to win.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

A company that has had its growth prospects cleaved off could see its equity valuation plummet, but it could also still be collecting steady checks from existing customers, making it a safer credit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

The waterway was cleaved across the most narrow section of the Panamanian isthmus in the late 1800s and early 1900s, by French and then U.S. engineers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

But within these macro trends, a divide has cleaved open.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2024

Heat cleaved to things like a low fever.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

It could break polyester chains into their individual building blocks, known as monomers, while also cleaving penicillin.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The cell destroys the disease-causing protein by cleaving it into short peptides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh described the film as “a social satire that wields a scalpel, not a cleaving broadsword, as it surgically slices through the many hypocrisies of the culture industry at large.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

“Society of the Snow” is judicious in what we see of the actual cutting and cleaving.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

After a day of cleaving rock salt from the innards of the mountain, finding him standing there with six guards hadn’t improved her mood.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

When she was five months pregnant, ultrasound examinations revealed that the fetus had a cleft palate, a brain cyst, and heart defects.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Her daughter was born early with a cleft palate, facial symptoms of sodium valproate syndrome as well as ADHD.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Schimberg, who became friends with Pearson during “Chained for Life,” also drew from his own experience with a cleft palate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024

The model will allow them to rapidly screen thousands of dietary and environmental factors in a laboratory dish before testing the impact of specific factors on cleft susceptibility in mouse models.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2024

This stream flows into the valley out of a sort of cleft in the rock ridge to the left of Burden Hill—the water comes from outside, and it was poisoned.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

It can also be manufactured synthetically using materials derived from sources such as clove oil or rice.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

A middle C would smell like a rose; bass notes like clove and vanilla.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

As written by Claire Dinhut, tonka “has a sweetness to it that resembles grassy, hay-like, fresh vanilla. However, tonka beans also give off a slightly warming and spicy aftertaste of cinnamon, clove and nutmeg.”

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025

The eels are sedated using clove oil so that Dr Evans and his PhD student group can easily measure them.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025

They had come to the end of a long cutting, deep, and sheer-sided in the middle, by which the road clove its way through a stony ridge.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious virus that affects cloven hooved animals.

From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2022

“Luckenbooth” starts in 1910 and creeps across the 20th century on cloven feet.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2021

Made with both graphite and acrylic, the busy scenes achieve an entrancing variety of tones: acres of newspaper gray, crinkling across the drawings’ shallow perspective, are periodically cloven by a sudden swath of velvety black.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021

“Chilling Adventures” hurls everything it can into its narrative cauldron, including a cave like a Hellmouth and a prep school like a satanic Hogwarts, replete with cloven hooves and pentagrams.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 26, 2018

The Ch’i-lin, for instance, out of ancient China, has the body of a deer covered with gleaming scales, a marvelous bushy tail, cloven hooves, and small horns.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas