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partition

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




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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

Consider a partition with two narrow parallel slits in it.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

"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

Others had brought in partitions and more than one computer to mark their office territory.

From BBC Aug. 12, 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

Down the center of the room twelve toilet bowls were arranged in six pairs, back to back, with no partitions.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

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

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 22, 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

In August 1947, India was partitioned and two new states were born: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2025

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

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

Sauper also spends time with a group of American missionaries who are partitioning the land in their own way.

From New York Times Jan. 30, 2024

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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