How to Use division of labor in a Sentence
division of labor
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Ever since Clarke’s exit, there’d been a clear division of labor in the band.
—Alex Pappademas, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
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There are questions about the division of labor between Noem and Tom Homan, who Trump tapped to be his border czar.
—Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025
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What’s a division of labor going to look like between us?
—Eliza Dumais, refinery29.com, 2 Apr. 2024
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There is no cook schedule and no formal division of labor.
—Belle Cushing, Bon Appétit, 16 Oct. 2024
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That unit of the department’s division of labor and industry was on the scene over the weekend, spokesperson Jamie Mangrum said.
—Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
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Trump and his lawyers have followed a strategy that involves a division of labor.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
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As far as our division of labor went, Jesse really led the research initiative to try to get to those answers.
—Tom White, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2025
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The arrival of new machines and hands to the global division of labor has never been harmful to existing workers.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Because of this division of labor, properties often ask guests not to remove their towels from their room or pilfer ones from the pool or spa.
—Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
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In terms of security, a more balanced division of labor could emerge.
—Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2022
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The solution to this dilemma was a division of labor, where the United States provided firepower and money to allies like Raziq, who did the dirty work.
—Matthieu Aikins Victor J. Blue Peter Ganim Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 22 May 2024
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Evolution solves this problem with a division of labor between babies and adults.
—Alison Gopnik, Scientific American, 1 May 2016
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And this division of labor in turn influenced beliefs about the appropriate roles of men and women in society.
—Sofia Shchukina, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024
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This division of labor could help cells heal wounds more efficiently, but cancer cells might also exploit it to propel their rampant growth.
—Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 8 Nov. 2024
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Scientists can learn more about prehistoric social roles and division of labor between the genders.
—Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
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This contributed to a gendered division of labor – men started disproportionately working in the fields while women worked in the home.
—Sofia Shchukina, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024
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Long before then, though, the politics of electricity had begun to establish a division of labor over control of power that endures to this day.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 June 2023
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What's more, the mastery of fire, the development of language, the origin of the division of labor, the beginning of social hierarchies and even the emergence of culture could be related to hunting and eating meat.
—Katharina Menne, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
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This division of labor would create a more seamless, cost-efficient interaction for users.
—Wei Duan, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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Even in cases where women are now breadwinners, the division of labor at home has barely budged, according to another 2023 Pew Research Center survey.
—Jessica Dickler,ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2024
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Translated, open lanes of trade would speed the very division of labor so instrumental to progress and prosperity, and thus the eventual revolution as a response to all the prosperity.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
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For the Post’s editorial board to disdain substantial Chinese production for the rest of the world is for those same editorialists to disdain the division of labor that is at the root of all productive advance.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
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By linking objects with particular people, the technique could shed light on prehistoric social roles and division of labor between the sexes or clarify whether or not an object was even made by our species.
—Reuters, NBC News, 4 May 2023
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Watch footage of African wild dogs hunting as a pack and you’ll be impressed by the degree of coordination, communication and division of labor among individuals.
—Jerry A. Coyne, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
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And could the increasing division of labor come with unforeseen limitations?
—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
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Critics of a greater transatlantic division of labor typically rely on three arguments.
—Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2023
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Researchers at Intel's Bangalore branch are obviously firm believers in the division of labor.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2010
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Gu Byeong-mo’s multiple-perspective story offers an affecting look at women’s work both in and out of the home, the division of labor in relationships, and the tensions between individual achievement and the collective good.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2025
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Through this division of labor, different roles in mental health care can be performed by people with different levels of training and certification, instead of relying on licensed clinicians to do it all.
—Grace Rubenstein, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
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Becker had a really strong conviction that the traditional division of labor and families was efficient because men could specialize in earning money and women could specialize in raising children and taking care of the family.
—How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
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