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partition

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




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If these costs are not paid when the beneficiaries take ownership, you can file a partition action to sell them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

West Bengal's history of migration dates back to the partition of British India in 1947.

From Barron's ● May 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

The partition could be removed and the two thrown into one for a bath tub.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

"At shelters... there are no walls or partitions between people. It's very congested."

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Moveable partitions divide the massive space: the front houses the Judith Center, the gender equality nonprofit that Andrews launched in 2024, while the back serves as her office, studio and archive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 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

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

Northern Ireland has remained part of the United Kingdom since Ireland was partitioned more than a century ago.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Just off the yard, this small, dingy room contained 10 partitioned payphone-style phones along three of the walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 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

The inside of the building was one long, dim, seemingly endless hall, partitioned into small, semiprivate cubicles by huge slabs of halfway-up concrete walls.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

In an agreement partitioning the Black Sea Fleet after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia agreed to pay Ukraine to lease a naval base in Sevastopol.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

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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