partition
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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
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
The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026
Various doctors came down infrequently, pulling a small white partition around the bed to offer my grandmother some limited privacy.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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"At shelters... there are no walls or partitions between people. It's very congested."
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Low-cost and lightweight, they are designed for "non-load-bearing use, such as pavements, partitions and garden beds," Farah told the BBC World Service's Newsday.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
The furniture and partitions were made from plastics and laminates, so they cost far less.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 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
The rickety partitions shook, their bolts rattled, and he invaded my personal space.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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In 1880, three-quarters of all Jews in the world lived in Eastern Europe—specifically, in the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, partitioned a century before by Austria, Prussia and Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 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 fall of El-Fasher gave paramilitaries control over all five state capitals in Darfur, raising fears that Sudan would effectively be partitioned along an east-west axis.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 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
The large “store” area was partitioned into two rooms by beaverboard planks that did not reach to the ceiling.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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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
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
The roof timbers, for example, are now protected with sprinklers and partitioning.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 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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