dividing

Example Sentences

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The start-up quickly went viral, with thousands sharing the news and dividing opinions on social media.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

At age 73, your RMD is calculated by dividing your previous year-end IRA balance by an IRS-assigned factor of 26.5.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

If you kept dividing an apple into smaller and smaller pieces, you would eventually reach molecules, then atoms, and later the tiny particles inside atoms such as protons, quarks, and gluons.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

The author has been faithfully logging her own schedule for a full decade, dividing each day’s 24 hours into 30-minute increments on a spreadsheet.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Dividing a number by zero yields infinity; dividing a number by infinity yields zero.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife