partitioned

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 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 Kashmir dispute dates back to 1947, when India got independence from British rule and was partitioned to create Pakistan.

From BBC • May 12, 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 two ramshackle rooms, built from zinc and porous bricks, like the ones on Fifteenth Avenue, overlooked the street, and were part of a row of similarly constructed tenements partitioned by narrow, dark, rat-infested alleyways.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane