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partition

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




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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

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

There was a glass partition separating the front from the back.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

Comprising most of the museum’s 100,000 square feet of exhibition space, it is treated as one great loft, sliced into smaller galleries by nonstructural partitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The BBC has previously documented how two partitions have been constructed in Gaza since the start of the current war.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024

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

From New York Times ● May 6, 2024

Eventually sturdier partitions appeared, one or two at a time.

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

In 1880, three-quarters of all Jews in the world lived in Eastern Europe—specifically, in the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, partitioned a century before by Austria, Prussia and Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

They are in a building with wooden ceiling beams, in an area that appears to be partitioned off with black curtains, with at least one security agent on the perimeter.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 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

When a cell divides, its genetic material divides within it and is partitioned to its daughters.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

The roof timbers, for example, are now protected with sprinklers and partitioning.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024

Sauper also spends time with a group of American missionaries who are partitioning the land in their own way.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

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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