split
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Each formulation was tested for several important properties, including compressive strength, split tensile strength, water absorption, and impact resistance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Mamma Mia!” star Amanda Seyfried and her husband, Thomas Sadoski, have split after nine years of marriage—just weeks after the actress put her longtime Los Angeles home on the market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The team had split the drivers' tyre strategies - Kimi Antonelli took the conventional strategy and started on the mediums, Russell had gone for the hards.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Michelle Lewis, a songwriter and the co-founder and chief executive of the nonprofit Songwriters of North America, said the composition side of that copyright split is often the harder one to defend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Theo hesitates a split second while considering my question, before his face arranges itself back into his familiar grin.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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"We see how Yersinia pestis splits into new branches during periods of conflict and spreads along the routes traveled by troops and displaced populations," said senior author Dr. Christiana L. Scheib.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
If an edge case splits people roughly down the middle, it effectively stops mattering, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
She says clients use prenups to clarify if they had the pet before marriage, whose pet it is, and what the expectations are if the couple splits or someone dies.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Other highlights included Daniela's death-defying dance break, complete with aerial splits, that led into Gabriella; and Megan's technotronic shakedown at the end of Pinky Up.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
We practiced the splits, and bending backward, the high-stepping strut, and I saw myself a sequined princess leading orchestras across a football field, the idol of cheering fans.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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It had also argued that splitting up the service would be technically unfeasible.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Pre-fame, Ms. Badu was a rapper as much as a singer, and the opening “Echos” finds her splitting the difference between the vocal modes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Dame Rachel said that parents have told her of the "impossible choices" they have made when "splitting time between caring for their seriously ill and disabled children and trying to hold down a job".
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
"And if we fold the map up in a different way, we can compare how different groups of animals took different paths from each other after splitting onto different evolutionary paths."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
The barn shook, and Kendra heard timbers splitting.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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