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divide

[dih-vahyd] / dɪˈvaɪd /






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When the BBC spoke to shoppers in central London this week, the retailer seemed to divide opinion.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Since the markets are so unpredictable, it makes sense to divide your eggs among many baskets rather than bet on just one.

From MarketWatch Aug. 6, 2026

But heatwaves are not experienced equally across the wealth divide.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

Recently, after a San Francisco Chronicle reporter posted a photo online of a neighborhood town hall devoted to the development, the generational divide turned into a social-media firestorm.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

An abacus is a physical tool for carrying out complicated calculations; it enables you to add and subtract, multiply and divide.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

This method divides the temperature record into separate periods and objectively identifies when the rate of warming appears to change.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

Knoll says she doesn’t want “things to feel didactic,” but concedes that class divides offer a treasure trove of stories.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Colin Woodard, director of the Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University, divides the US into a number of distinct identities, connected to those early fissures:

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

There are industry divides over which bill allows more flexibility to comply with new mandates and whether airlines should be required to make potentially costly retrofits of cockpit systems.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Along I-20, a superhighway that divides Atlanta into north and south, cars whizzed past at frightening speeds.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

Wales football fans have been left divided over the country's new home kit, with some comparing the pattern on the red shirt to that seen on bus seats.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

The hardest hit areas have been divided into zones that will alternate water service on 48-hour cycles, leaving some neighborhoods without water while others remain supplied.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Evans compared its divided circular body to a "bathmat" or "pancake."

From Science Daily Aug. 6, 2026

Pacific island nations are divided on whether deep-sea mining will deliver economic windfalls, or environmental catastrophe.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

The men were divided into two watches: Shackleton, Crean, and McNeish steered, bailed, and pumped for four hours, while Worsley, Vincent, and McCarthy slept—or tried to.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

A day after being forced out, Fedorov on Thursday held an extraordinary press conference at which he accused the commander of dividing the country.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

At his own stampede speech, Hogan called separatism "a poison" dividing families across the province.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

When the scientists reduced E2F3 levels in RB-deficient cancer cells, the tumors stopped dividing, could no longer form clusters, and in some cases died completely.

From Science Daily Jul. 4, 2026

The dividing line between the East and the West during the Cold War would end up running straight through Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

The dirty tricks of making squared infinitesimals disappear and then dividing by zero to get a derivative were no longer necessary.

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




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