subdivide
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And so even in the legislature, we subdivide power again between Senate and house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Unlike state criminal codes, the federal criminal code does not “grade” or subdivide most of its white-collar offenses.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023
“That male lineage unifies the tomb, whereas female ancestors subdivide the community.”
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023
Groups with more complex skeletons may occupy smaller niches and are less able to subdivide those niche spaces in order to produce new species.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2023
He understood a lot about how to speculate for land, graze it, subdivide it, make it pay dividends.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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It starts broad with three domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya, then subdivides into kingdoms, continuing to narrow itself down all the way to species.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022
Yet another, June Living, subdivides homes and individual apartments into single-room rentals.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 13, 2018
Anchored by an instantly likable teen, "Becoming Us" uses a screen that often subdivides into video blogs, FaceTime chats and texts to make its preference for selfie over soapbox instantly clear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2015
During the fourth and fifth weeks, the anterior neural tube dilates and subdivides to form vesicles that will become the brain structures.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
This question subdivides itself thus: What ought we northern and professedly anti-slavery Christians to do, and not do?
From Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by Baldwin, A.C.
These measures would contribute to "reduced demand" for subdivided units, keeping rents at bay, a Housing Bureau spokesperson said in a statement.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
It also features five precision-calibrated plates and degree divisions "so fine they are subdivided down to a third of a degree".
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
It is covered in a grid of regular box-like shapes, each subdivided into smaller, repeating units.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026
But the agreement exempts 674 acres that the developer has already subdivided.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026
He also stayed long enough in each town to form the most enthusiastic of his converts into religious societies, which in turn he subdivided into smaller classes of a dozen or so people.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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About 340 million years ago, leaves sported veins that branched like a tree, with a main “trunk” subdividing into multiple branches.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
Peter Gleick, author of more than a dozen books on water, orchestrates a voyage through the history of this precious and finite commodity, subdividing a rich timeline into three eras.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
“We went in, and it was like on each floor, every room had cloth partitions, like blankets held from the ceiling, subdividing it into multiple residents’ cubes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2022
The report noted that because the Native American and Alaska Native population is already the smallest, further subdividing it would introduce a substantial variation.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
Thus, as chemistry advances towards perfection, by dividing and subdividing, it is impossible to say where it is to end; and these things we at present suppose simple may soon be found quite otherwise.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine