partition
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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
The partition of India in 1947 played a significant role in the family's history.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
Hoagland had furnished the place with a three-bay sound partition, each bay fitted with a dedicated phone line and laptop with fax/modem.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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"At shelters... there are no walls or partitions between people. It's very congested."
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The furniture and partitions were made from plastics and laminates, so they cost far less.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
In small bathrooms, the team has deployed fancy tiles, lots of light and glass partitions instead of shower curtains.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
Some Djurgarden fans climbed over partitions to access the away section.
From BBC ● May 9, 2025
There are partitions and corridors, nice offices around the perimeter, paintings and posters everywhere, bright and cheery, but it's still like a maze.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
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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
“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
In August 1947, India was partitioned and two new states were born: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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 attic of our home was partitioned into two small rooms.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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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
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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