divide
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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
I’ll dig into the conversations my fiancé and I had about what we could afford and how we would divide up expenses.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
But heatwaves are not experienced equally across the wealth divide.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
The problem has become more visible as voters increasingly divide their support among a larger number of political parties.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
She whimpers, reaching across the divide to stroke my cheek with the back of her hand.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
Disraeli nonetheless set the standard for a “one-nation conservatism” that aimed to bridge social divides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
And that geographical imbalance helped further fuel ideologically divides.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Every time a healthy cell divides, its telomeres become a little shorter.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 1, 2026
That metric divides an asset’s price by the average of ten years of earnings and adjusted for inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
The white curtain that divides my bed from the next patient’s whips back, and Johanna Mason stares down at me.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
As a teen, he divided his time between school and driving oxen to till the land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Gakpo's 2025-26 campaign divided opinion among Liverpool supporters, with seven Premier League goals representing his lowest return in a full season at Anfield.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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
Marina divided the young women into pilots, navigators, and technicians.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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
Instead of dividing the detector into millions of tiny units, the system uses advanced camera technology to reconstruct where the light originated.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
At his own stampede speech, Hogan called separatism "a poison" dividing families across the province.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
An actuarial approach, dividing a portfolio by remaining life expectancy, can be used but introduces too much spending fluctuation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
The others sorted out the goods, making a pile of all that could be left behind, and dividing up the rest.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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