great divide

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Recent Examples of great divide Now, the conversation around golf’s great divide has flared up again. — Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2025 Society has been rocked in the past seven days by comedy and politics, by debates about authoritarianism and free speech, and by a reckoning about the great divide across the United States. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025 And that isn’t even close to the scariest part when considering what might resume being a great divide between the Padres and Dodgers the rest of the regular season (and possibly in the postseason). — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025 The league title might already be in the bag for one of them, or even a dark horse that doesn’t come from either side of Spanish football’s great divide. — Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for great divide
Recent Examples of Synonyms for great divide
Noun
  • Florida leads those states with 15 executions so far in 2026, by far the nation's busiest death chamber.
    — MICHAEL GRACZYK, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026
  • By platitudes like a peaceful and dignified death and silly words like natural.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • With the town motel still not having been rebuilt, John stays at Hal’s for the night, where feeding his carnivorous alien plant Earl helps the former hero’s demise truly set in.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The band’s interest in making its records sound better is one thing that led to its demise.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • That the quarterback who first found the Patriots’ Achilles’ heel in a Super Bowl was Eli Manning—the younger, bumbling brother of football’s true prince, Peyton Manning—added to the sense that Brady could only be taken down by an accident of fate.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • That was the fate of Jeffrey Dahmer’s former apartment building and the Idaho house where Bryan Kohberger murdered four college students.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Instead, 243 of the only 279 yards the defense allowed came through the air, including seven passing plays of at least 15 yards.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Wentz took advantage of the good field position and marched the team to three touchdown passes on 13-for-19 passing.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Yet one demographic may still have some reason to restrict their doom-scrolling and YouTube watching – pregnant mothers.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Muse monetization won't be about addictive engagement or doom scrolling.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026

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“Great divide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20divide. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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