divide
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“Income inequality and the wealth divide in America have widened dramatically, and so has the gap in longevity and health between rich and poor.”
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
Mediators said the main negotiators quickly embraced a proposal to divide traffic into an inbound lane near Iran and an outbound lane near Oman, The Wall Street Journal reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
When the BBC spoke to shoppers in central London this week, the retailer seemed to divide opinion.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
At one point, the growing divide between the market’s winners and losers pushed dispersion within the S&P 500 to one of the widest levels on record.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
The Osage prevailed upon the government to divide the land solely among members of the tribe, thereby increasing each individual’s allotment from 160 acres to 657 acres.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Investors generally prefer looking at forward price-to-earnings ratio for stocks, which divides share price by consensus 12-month earnings-per-share estimates.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
This method divides the temperature record into separate periods and objectively identifies when the rate of warming appears to change.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Since Disney introduced Lightning Lanes in 2021, debate has raged over whether letting people pay for shorter waits is savvy crowd management or nickel-and-diming that divides people by income.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
When the national mood wobbles, we turn to the arts, which have the power to free buried desires, soothe souls and cross divides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The transition roughly coincides with the transition between dry and wet seasons—the time when the Milky Way releases life-giving water to Pacha Mama, Mother Earth—and divides the heavens into four quar- ters.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Each seven-year cycle can be divided into two cycles of three and a half years, which are then subdivided into a “favorable” 18-month period and an “unfavorable” 18-month period.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
"In principle, this means the Rhine is no longer continuously navigable and thus divided in two."
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Researchers recruited 180 participants and divided them into three groups.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Wales football fans have been left divided over the country's new home kit, with some comparing the pattern on the red shirt to that seen on bus seats.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Try again. What is two hundred divided by four?”
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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A day after being forced out, Fedorov on Thursday held an extraordinary press conference at which he accused the commander of dividing the country.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Instead of dividing the detector into millions of tiny units, the system uses advanced camera technology to reconstruct where the light originated.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Fundamentally there is the speed of a moving object, calculated by dividing distance by time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The warehouse is right on Indiana Street, the dividing line between Boyle Heights, which is in the city of Los Angeles, and unincorporated East L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Yet dividing by zero destroys the fabric of mathematics and the framework of logic—and threatens to undermine the very basis of science.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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