partition
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The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026
This wasn’t a partition under the aegis of the British Empire: It happened 24 years after the British left.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
When one sibling wants to live in the inherited home but cannot afford to buy out the other, it’s usually time for hard decisions: a partition action, if necessary, to sell and move on.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026
The experiments revealed that bridgmanite's ability to trap water, measured by its water partition coefficient, increases sharply at higher temperatures.
From Science Daily • Dec. 26, 2025
Consider a partition with two narrow parallel slits in it.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Vocabulary lists containing partition
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