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partition

[pahr-tish-uhn, per-] / pɑrˈtɪʃ ən, pər- /




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If these costs are not paid when the beneficiaries take ownership, you can file a partition action to sell them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

But on the other side of a partition wall - an area Legacy's director Robert Bush ordered an employee to keep hidden from others in the industry - is a labyrinth of dimly-lit corridors.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The film, whose title means "I will return", tells the story of a romance that survives nearly eight decades, inspired by real-life accounts from families affected by the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Three years ago, he did not know the Punjabi language or what happened during the India and Pakistan partition in 1947 after British rule ended.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

There was a wooden partition separating the entryway from the rest of the house, with shelves covered in pictures and candles and phone chargers.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

"At shelters... there are no walls or partitions between people. It's very congested."

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The Line Hotels, a boutique chain, uses a mix of partial partitions, pocket doors and glass in lieu of traditional bathroom doors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

On 1 April 1937, the first of several imperial partitions was enacted and Aden was separated from India.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025

They erected partitions of wood, cardboard and cloth, built shacks within rooms and cooked on paraffin stoves.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2024

He'd had a few partitions knocked down to make the place broaden out, he said, and then had them pine-panel the walls and fit up a special pine-paneled bar in the shape of a horseshoe.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Northern Ireland has remained part of the United Kingdom since Ireland was partitioned more than a century ago.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

We shouldn’t be grouped and partitioned by race or sex or identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

They are in a building with wooden ceiling beams, in an area that appears to be partitioned off with black curtains, with at least one security agent on the perimeter.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

Instead, the justices together gravitated toward something else entirely: a problem about time, causation, and whether constitutional authority can be temporally partitioned.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2026

The side of the square is partitioned into 72 segments, while the diagonal comes out to more than 101 but fewer than 102 segments.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Holtz's study, "Bringing up baby: preliminary exploration of the effect of ontogenetic niche partitioning in dinosaurs versus long-term maternal care in mammals in their respective ecosystems," was published in the Italian Journal of Geosciences.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026

And Starbucks Korea warned this month that a minority of people are going further than just laptops, such as bringing in desktop monitors, printers, partitioning off desks or leaving tables unattended for long periods.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

The Chargers set up a makeshift treatment room outside the locker room, partitioning off an area with massage tables and stationary bikes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

Data collected in Yellowstone before, during, and after wolf reintroduction provides a window into how the species have found a way to warily coexist by partitioning the landscape.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 25, 2023

Aristotle was wrong in his partitioning of male and female contributions into “material” and “message,” but abstractly, he had captured one of the essential truths about the nature of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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