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But once you’ve sorted these details, you and your arborist can make your trees safer, healthier, more lovable, and less likely to cleave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 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

Ever since the government cleared the merger of concert promoter Live Nation and ticketseller Ticketmaster in 2010, there have been demands from consumer advocates to cleave them.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2024

Endonucleases cut the RNA molecules through the middle like scissors, while exonucleases cleave the thread from one end to the other.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2024

Sometimes a writer should cleave an intimidating block of print with a paragraph break just to give the reader’s eyes a place to alight and rest.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

“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

In the agony of fear he tried to call, but his tongue clave to his mouth.

From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine

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

And now at Royal Portrush in this year's Open Championship, Scheffler has cleaved open an advantage of four shots after 54 holes following a display of understated authority in the hazy Northern Irish sunshine.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025

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

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2024

An agreement has defied numerous, U.N.-facilitated rounds of talks since 1974 when the island was cleaved along ethnic lines following a Turkish invasion preceded by a coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2024

The great hemlock bough lay across Gray’s chest, cleaved from the tree.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

"In the end, we optimized the conditions to a practical level and, under ambient temperatures, achieved PEG-modified cleaving efficiency above 91% at 50°C within just one to two hours," stated Inagaki, the study's first author.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

The executives also showed no interest in cleaving off the cable channels, unlike Comcast or Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025

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

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

First, his job is to act as an impartial observer, obeying the rules of forensic archaeology and cleaving to hard data.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 23, 2023

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

Habermas was born with a cleft palate that required repeated operations as a child, an experience he later said helped shape his thinking about language and communication.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

Reported problems include spina bifida, cleft palate, and a range of intellectual, communication, behavior and memory disorders.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2025

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

Losing her was like being cleft down the middle.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

I like to caramelize yellow onions with butter and a pinch of salt before adding a clove or two of fresh garlic, stirring continuously to prevent them from burning.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

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

One woman arrived with a clove of garlic and placed it down on the table before she started talking.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

Fewer were they but they clove through the Southrons like a fire-bolt in a forest.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Stop using XamfirPM if you experience: headaches, joint pain, flaming discharge, wilted ribs, night quacking, glowing, cloven toes, kaleidoscopic vision, lycanthropy, Bea Arthur mimicking, or zombification.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022

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

From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2022

In the video, the singer has deer horns and cloven hooves.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

“And in their most unmitigable rage into a cloven pine, within which rift imprisoned he didst painfully—”

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2019

He came, a weary man with dinted helm and cloven shield.

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