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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

It was clear that Hassan did not need to cleave a mountain to win Aziz.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

“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

And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law; but Ruth clave unto her.

From Heroes of Israel Text of the Hero Stories with Notes and Questions for Young Students by Theodore Gerald Soares

The club would have been cleaved by a secondary access road if the unit count exceeded 2,300, the Daily Pilot reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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

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

Her knees buckled, and her vision swam, and she wondered for a moment if this was dying, whether she’d been cleaved in two.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Theoretically, cleaving the company’s interest in promoting concerts and filling venues from its interest in extracting the maximum in junk fees from powerless customers would do much to foster competition in the ticketing business.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

RNA silencing, also known as RNA interference, is a way that plants and invertebrate animals can protect themselves from viruses by cleaving viral RNA to repress viral replication.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024

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

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024

Wriggling around he cried, “Stupefy!” and a red bolt of light shot from his own wand, cleaving a gap between the four pursuing Death Eaters as they scattered to avoid it.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

They have looked into the use of dermal fillers for people with a cleft, the people who provide them, what experiences and qualifications they have, and how these fillers are being marketed to the community.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Brierley said the lack of regulations around injectables and cleft dermal fillers was also concerning.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

It comes as one psychology academic warned people with a cleft lip were being "deliberately targeted" by the aesthetics industry and "left vulnerable to potential harm and exploitation".

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Aesthetics treatment for people with scars involves using filler to reduce their appearance, restore symmetry, and add volume after cleft lip surgery.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Now, on the witness stand, he held his hard-billed captain’s hat between his fingers, crossed his arms over his barrel chest, and pointed his cleft chin at Nels Gudmundsson, who wavered unsteadily before him, blinking.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

An illustration shows middle C having the scent of a rose; the C two octaves higher, jasmine; in the rumbly bass, clove and vanilla.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

Adding cinnamon, clove, cardamom, nutmeg and other warming spices gives the dish a depth of flavor.

From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024

I saw a clove of garlic inside, and I added it to my inventory.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2022

Huge cloven footprints were found in the snow.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 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

“Its cats. Its pale sky. The empty sky of morning, drained and pure. Its deep, cloven streets. Its narrow courts, the faint, rotten odor within, orange peels lying in the corners.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2018

Each monster was about the size of a cow, with a bowed back like a broken-down horse, matted gray fur, skinny legs, and black cloven hooves.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan