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"They were bullied, threatened and marginalised. So the families knew there was an issue at this trust. There was a cultural divide caused by the approach taken by the executives."
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The gains were largely driven by wealthier households, reflecting a growing divide where high earners are doing most of the spending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The digital divide can also pose a real threat, leaving older people vulnerable to high-tech crimes such as online scams or limiting their access to medical services, experts say.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
A word that appears unlikely to be the final answer can therefore still be extremely valuable if its letters help divide the remaining possibilities into smaller groups.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
While there was still a class divide in the black community, the cooperation among all levels reached an all-time high, but much of the interaction fermented behind the scenes where whites couldn’t see it.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Those signals can influence major cellular decisions, including whether a cell divides, moves or dies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
A little cheer rose for 79-year-old Hwang Sun-hee after she managed to place an online order at a training session in South Korea, which has one of the world's starkest digital divides for seniors.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Per capita divides the account equally among whoever is still living, which can inadvertently cut out an entire branch of the family.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 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
Ayesha directs me down a wide main road that divides the camp into halves.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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The issue has sharply divided opinion among corporate pundits.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Rather than forming one unbroken sheet, Arctic sea ice is divided into separate slabs known as floes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Public anxiety has intensified following warnings from researchers and industry leaders about increasingly powerful systems, while lawmakers remain deeply divided over how aggressively Washington should intervene.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Before Friday’s CPI report, economists were divided over whether the Fed would move at all.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Geneva Accords, which officially ended France’s eight-year war in Vietnam, temporarily divided the country into North and South.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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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
"At Tetris we believe in the power of connection and building people together, not dividing them," the firm said in its initial response to the game.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Many chemotherapy drugs work best against cells that are dividing quickly.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
"At Tetris, we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them," Tetris said in a social media post.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Brahmagupta, an Indian mathematician of the seventh century, gave rules for dividing numbers by each other, and he included the negatives.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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