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partition

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




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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

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

The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

If he does not, you have the means to file a partition action to force the sale of the home through the courts.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 5, 2026

The driver slid the glass partition closed and drove on in silence.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

"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

Eventually sturdier partitions appeared, one or two at a time.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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

“Sudan is now de facto partitioned into two competing halves,” said Alan Boswell, a Sudan analyst with the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

It was partitioned by a huge black grand piano on which was mounted a large, silver-framed autographed picture of Walt Disney himself.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025

Portions of Y-12 were partitioned off so that the scientists could not cross from one end of its vast floor to the other without stopping repeatedly to show their passes.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Are we looking at a vision of growth or the partitioning of community?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

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

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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