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divide

[dih-vahyd] / dɪˈvaɪd /






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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

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

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

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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