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  • present tense form of halve (3rd person singular).
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halves

[havz, hahvz] / hævz, hɑvz /
NOUN
one of two equal parts of a whole
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How did you reconcile the rock star and new dad halves of your life?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Using that structural information, the chemists were able to make the connection between the molecule's two halves more rigid.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

“You could have folded a picture of them, and the two halves would’ve matched,” Herzog writes.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

"She lived fully, fiercely and never did anything by halves," they added.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

With the butcher knife Ma cut the big, orange-colored pumpkins into halves.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder



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