partition

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

And the end of partition would be costly: While the Republic of Ireland is now one of the wealthiest economies in Western Europe, Mr. Stephens argues, Northern Ireland has become one of its poorest regions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

And from the peculiar little noise coming through the partition, I realized he was crying.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Low-cost and lightweight, they are designed for "non-load-bearing use, such as pavements, partitions and garden beds," Farah told the BBC World Service's Newsday.

From BBC ● May 13, 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

They erected partitions of wood, cardboard and cloth, built shacks within rooms and cooked on paraffin stoves.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2024

Gerald Black, at his own request, was supervising the mushrooming wooden partitions that were springing up in a bellying circle on the vaulted third floor of Radiation Building 2.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

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

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

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 forest was partitioned into different areas and given biblical place names, such as Judea, Bethlehem and Nazareth.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024

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

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