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
But she was probably being modest, because if you looked harder at Weisberg’s life you could probably subdivide her experiences into fifteen or twenty worlds.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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
In the high-energy “Blow High, Blow Low,” a dance for 11 men becomes one for 10, then subdivides into smaller groups before suddenly swelling to 14.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 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
The former he subdivides into logic, metaphysics, and physics; the latter into morals, natural right, and politics.
From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)
Tens of thousands of people housed in these monuments to pre-revolutionary Cuba, which were subdivided into apartments after Fidel Castro took power in 1959, live on the edge, literally.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 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
“Some of us were busy surviving and couldn’t learn about subdivided farming.”
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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
He told Palm Beach town officials he couldn’t afford the $3 million annual upkeep, and proposed subdividing the property and building mansions.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
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
There is no specific measurement of the point at which this subdividing veil was to stretch across the tent.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.
