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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

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

"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

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

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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