partition

The partition of India in 1947 uprooted more than 10 million people, Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

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

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 rats were fighting; they were trying to get at each other through the partition.

From "1984" by George Orwell

"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 Line Hotels, a boutique chain, uses a mix of partial partitions, pocket doors and glass in lieu of traditional bathroom doors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

Some Djurgarden fans climbed over partitions to access the away section.

From BBC ● May 9, 2025

We followed her to a room with glass partitions.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

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

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 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

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