divide
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According to Denning, this creates a fundamental divide.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Many court commentators were surprised by the close 5-4 divide on the constitutional issue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
The video has caused a sharp divide on social media - some have accused the king of displaying abusive and undignified behaviour, while others criticised the queen for airing private matters in public.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The United Nations said Wednesday that pledges towards closing the global digital divide had in just five years surpassed $100 billion, in what it hailed as a "landmark achievement".
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
These are the rules that we recognize today: divide two numbers and the answer is positive if the numbers’ signs are the same.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Every time a healthy cell divides, its telomeres become a little shorter.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026
When the national mood wobbles, we turn to the arts, which have the power to free buried desires, soothe souls and cross divides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
That metric divides an asset’s price by the average of ten years of earnings and adjusted for inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
She used the phrase "we have far more in common than that which divides us".
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
She divides us and kids from Mr. Hwang’s class into several teams.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
Economists are divided over whether the technology will ultimately take away jobs or if it will instead help workers get more done.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
A stock’s forward P/E ratio is its price divided by the consensus 12-month earnings-per-share estimate among analysts working for brokerage or research firms.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Lung cancer is generally divided into two main categories: small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
But matches involving England and Scotland have consistently divided audiences either side of the border.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Chapter Summary: This chapter is divided into two parts.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
The warehouse is right on Indiana Street, the dividing line between Boyle Heights, which is in the city of Los Angeles, and unincorporated East L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
That is why the latest rally is dividing market watchers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
The projects in both Albania and Serbia have served as rallying points for critics with a range of frustrations, blurring traditional political dividing lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
The standard treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer has historically relied on chemotherapy, potent drugs designed to kill rapidly dividing cells.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
Instead of dividing by zero as Newton and Leibniz did, modern mathematicians divide by a number that they let approach zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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