divide
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Those proteins then encourage intestinal stem cells to divide more rapidly, creating more opportunities for some of the cells to become cancerous.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Herman later added a wall to divide the studio space as well as custom shelving for his expansive library and ceramics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
But what “Lanterns” does with John Stewart delineates the divide between sympathetic and empathetic storytelling.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Both sides now hope that the continuing exhumations in Volhynia, which restarted this summer after a more than decadelong pause, might yet bring the two countries closer together rather than divide them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Of course, melodies don't always divide into clear, separated phrases.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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A patio divides the two halves, providing access to the outdoors and opportunities to bring more light into both wings of the house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
That’s kind of what you’re talking about, bringing people back together, healing divides.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
The model divides how much supply already exists divided by the amount that gets added every year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
One useful gauge is a stock’s up/down volume ratio, which takes a stock’s volume on up days and divides it by volume on down days over a 50-day period.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
High marble arches circle the inside of the sanctuary, and a carved, filigreed screen divides it.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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So far, judges across the nation have been divided.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
He explained that the team was divided into three groups for software, electronics and mechanical.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
For example, if your household portfolio is intended to be 60% stocks, 35% bonds and 5% cash, the $500,000 doesn’t necessarily need to be divided along those lines.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
In addition to being ideologically divided, young men and women have vastly different beliefs about religion and gender.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Each house was divided into two side-by-side units with two different families living in them.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
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And the selloff comes right after dollar-yen rate tried to get back above the 200-day moving average, which many chart watchers view as a dividing line between longer-term uptrends and downtrends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
Senescence is a state in which a damaged or stressed cell permanently stops dividing but remains alive.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
What’s dividing fans is Julian Casablancas’ insistence on using Autotune, as many prefer his raw vocals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
To get annual figures, Bending Spoons said it averaged four quarterly percentages, a method that can smooth out big swings in churn, rather than dividing one full-year revenue number by another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Olivia has colored tabs dividing every class notebook in some personal system of priorities, and she plays Minecraft like a demon.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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