How to Use divide and conquer in a Sentence
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The simplest way to parent these ages is to divide and conquer.
—Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
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Use furniture or area rugs to divide and conquer your tiny space.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
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When the time comes to divide and conquer work, the team will perform and produce better work.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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When faced with these sorts of calls, Horvath and West divide and conquer.
—Helena Gunderson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Sometimes the real win is knowing when to divide and conquer.
—Christine Chitnis, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Mar. 2026
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Please don’t try that famous historic tactic of divide and conquer.
—Richard B. Williams, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
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There was a divide and conquer where none of us were made to feel as though our jobs were safe, because we were told that our jobs weren’t safe.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
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And then a kid’s activity starts, for which my wife and I divide and conquer.
—New York Times, 11 Dec. 2020
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With such a breadth of work and almost no time to do it, the production design team has to divide and conquer.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
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Takes Two, Boss battle forces each player to divide and conquer.
—Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2021
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Instead, having a team that can divide and conquer is a much better strategy.
—Biju Chandrasekharan, Forbes, 2 June 2021
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My teens love them because there are enough pieces in the set to divide and conquer when chopping carrots, onions, and other veggies.
—Terri Peters, Parents, 15 Oct. 2024
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Having two leaders divide and conquer the long list of chief executive duties can help cut the risk of burnout at the top.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2022
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Parenting younger children is often about divide and conquer.
—Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2022
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Clive Owen hopes to divide and conquer with his dual Emmy submissions this year.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
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Now, the couple - who have an 8-month-old son named Vern, as well as three dogs and a cat - often divide and conquer the business.
—Sydney Page, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
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The Lumineers are practicing a bit of divide and conquer this fall.
—Gary Graff, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2020
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Finally, maybe the connection to others is a divide and conquer approach.
—Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
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And then Kate had a hand in that, and obviously Sandra was planting the seed with you to try to divide and conquer.
—EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
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In short, the Academy Awards’ ability to divide and conquer worked for a number of years.
—Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2024
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First, families must come together as a unit to divide and conquer tasks at home, so that women’s jobs don’t have to be put in jeopardy, Chatzky said.
—Michelle Fox, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2020
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At the end of day, your daughter isn’t responsible for pleasing you or taking care of your mental health, so talk to your partner, and plan how to divide and conquer.
—Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
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Trump’s strategy has always been to intimidate, divide and conquer.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2024
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Beyond the tensions among Republicans, Democrats will be ready to pounce on any opportunity to divide and conquer.
—Charles R. Hunt, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2023
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That might raise eyebrows from competitors about where that close partnership ends—indeed, whether Xpeng and Volkswagen could strategize to divide and conquer.
—Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
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Without cohesiveness and unity with our allies, autocratic forces will divide and conquer the bickering West.
—Jamie Dimon, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2023
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That adjustment period saw the couple divide and conquer, with Oakley getting a hold on Otis while Peregrym tended to Mela.
—Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2022
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The siblings agree to divide and conquer their divorcing parents, so Brie'll take Dad and Jack'll take Mom, who's apparently in love with her art teacher.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 20 July 2022
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Your team will need to divide and conquer in order to deal with media inquiries, social chatter, retailers, key accounts, communities, board of directors, investors, and sales reps, among others.
—Chris Goddard, Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2019
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Both have leaders who took office with a populism that caught their opponents off guard, upending their countries’ political establishments with culture wars that helped divide and conquer their critics.
—Gregory Feifer, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2017
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