halve
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The tentative pact would halve U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum and lower the duty on Canadian automobiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The miner could either halve production to 2035 which would reduce global mine supply by around 7% or push to maintain output at roughly current levels, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
According to our State Housing Supply Legislation Tracker External link, state-level laws are on track to produce roughly 280,000 new homes a year, which could halve the national housing shortage within a decade.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Tech hardware stocks may halve in value, similar to what investors experienced in the sector during the 2008-09 global financial crisis, while software stocks and retail are likely to fall 25% to 30%, Panmure said.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
“Second, the idea of helping you halve your sentence and getting you back out and at large on the street two years earlier? Not terribly appealing.”
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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A few minutes after liftoff, its two halves will separate and fall away, allowing Roman to continue its journey into space.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Splitting the market in two and owning both halves is a lot like owning the whole thing in the first place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The chart above shows that, much of the time, the two halves of this hedge tend to rise and fall together.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
It was a tale of two halves for Bellingham who was deployed in a more box-to-box role in Declan Rice’s absence.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
They all followed the path as it fell down between the sharp halves of a cracked boulder, came into pine woods again, and finally rounded into a sudden clearing.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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Ella Miller and Alex Kovach bought a home in one such area, East Baltimore’s Johnston Square, where nonprofit developer ReBUILD Metro has halved the number of vacant homes in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Lisa says that since starting on the medication she has more than halved her consumption.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
But by the day's end, the Kospi was six percent lower, while SK hynix and Samsung had halved their losses.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The stock’s surge marks a turnaround in investor sentiment, as shares of Super Micro have nearly halved since their early June peak.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Horton halved that number and estimated the dead at 100,000.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Microsoft launches a new quantum chip, claiming it is 1,000 times more reliable and halving its scalable quantum computer timeline to 2029.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026
Brazilian exports to the US fell off a cliff, more than halving last summer.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
New York City has committed to halving the construction industry’s carbon footprint by 2033.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited said in March it is considering halving the market cap threshold for companies to adopt a dual-class share structure.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
And it is also at this point that he would have made an unfortunate discovery: looking at his image in a mirror will have had the effect of halving its height.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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