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division

[dih-vizh-uhn] / dɪˈvɪʒ ən /




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At the meeting, Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson called on the city management team to hire an independent consultant to review the Community and Economic Development Department, which includes the code enforcement division.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

President Gagwell is haunted by the memory of a child she ran over with a train while serving in the Railforce, a fake division of the American armed forces.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

The company has also built its own vertically integrated satellite-manufacturing division.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

GSK swapped its oncology business for Novartis’ vaccines division in a 2014 deal, but is now trying to strengthen its pipeline of cancer drugs.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

They learned that there was nothing so loathsome as a wisp of blanket fluff hiding under a bed, concealing within its form a battalion, a whole division, of bacteria.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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