subdivide
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My initial thought is that, unless local planning laws allow you to subdivide the property, your son will be building a house on land that you own — not on property that your son owns.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
And so even in the legislature, we subdivide power again between Senate and house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
“When it last listed, there were two other offers from people that wanted to subdivide the land,” Maize said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
Unlike state criminal codes, the federal criminal code does not “grade” or subdivide most of its white-collar offenses.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 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
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 group he again subdivides into the querulent and hallucinatory paranoid forms.
From Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck
If the property cannot be subdivided, his house would increase the value of your overall property, but ownership would still remain with the family trust.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
It’s cold and it’s long dead and here’s another place on New World that never made it to subdivided farming.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
Find out why subdividing the land is not allowed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Titanic estates have dotted L.A. over the last century, but most have been whittled down by developers subdividing the lots and selling them as separate properties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
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
The Development of Classification The problem of dividing and subdividing the whole of human knowledge and of thus bringing order into the manifoldness of scientific efforts has fascinated the leading thinkers of all ages.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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