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On Friday, the European Union and China reached a deal that the bloc said could halve its imports of Chinese hybrid vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The government is also planning to "almost halve" its social security deficit in 2027, bringing it down to 12 to 13 billion euros, Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Labour promised in its 2024 manifesto to halve violence against women and girls within a decade.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

“I. Don’t. Know. Like 1 told Barrone. I wish I knew. She offered to get the DA to halve my sentence if I could ID the contract issuer. Why are you winking at me?”

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

It will be a weekend of two halves weather-wise for most people with many seeing a cool start on Saturday.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

Dots and ties give you much freedom to write notes of varying lengths, but so far you must build your notes from halves of other notes.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Wei, 46, estimates that her income has more than halved in the past few years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

However, it said the "stark reality" was that UK cask ale volumes had more than halved in less than a decade and "this trend looks set to continue across the UK".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The number of graduate vacancies in the UK has almost halved in the past year, as employers cut entry-level roles in favour of AI and battle rising costs.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

CE estimates China’s export volumes of solar panels, EVs and lithium-ion batteries, where EU counts as a key consumer, have tripled—while prices have roughly halved since 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Horton halved that number and estimated the dead at 100,000.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

UPS launched a “pretty big transformation of our company” that involved halving Amazon’s volume, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Microsoft asserted that the new chip is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, effectively halving the timeline to build a scalable quantum computer.

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

In the last cycle Micron stock peaked at the start of 2022, with the forward P/E at just nine times, ahead of a halving in the shares that year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

I make my way back to him, halving the distance between me and the fire.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman