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as in portion
one of the pieces from which something is designed to be assembled
one of the partitions of a prefabricated house
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as in split
the act or process of a whole separating into two or more parts or pieces
the partition of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia
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as in to segment
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Recent Examples of partition
Michael W. Sonnenfeldt,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
Thoughtful details include four handles, making the bags a breeze to move, as well as partitions sewn to the bottom to avoid root entanglement.
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Quincy Bulin,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 May 2026
Annabelle Dufraigne,
Architectural Digest,
14 Mar. 2026
The 12-school conference has seemingly partitioned into upper and lower divisions, with two middling teams — Boise State and UNLV — in between.
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Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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Noun
In 1947, the United Nations adopted a partition plan that contemplated two states, one Jewish and one Arab.
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Michael W. Sonnenfeldt,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
Thoughtful details include four handles, making the bags a breeze to move, as well as partitions sewn to the bottom to avoid root entanglement.
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Quincy Bulin,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 May 2026
Verb
Once dark and partitioned into too many small rooms (like many other historic homes in the British capital), this Victorian house in East London has benefitted from the interior design prowess of Rose Hanson and Charlotte Tilbury.
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Annabelle Dufraigne,
Architectural Digest,
14 Mar. 2026
The 12-school conference has seemingly partitioned into upper and lower divisions, with two middling teams — Boise State and UNLV — in between.
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Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for partition
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The sheriff's office reopened portions of the investigation roughly three years ago, reviewing thousands of case files and conducting interviews with Mansfield with assistance from federal and state authorities.
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Temperatures will decline slightly Friday and Saturday across portions of the UK and France, but the more significant relief for these areas will come Sunday as the heat dome continues to shift eastward.
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The Daily Mail reports that a woman dressed in a black strapless dress ducked under a line divider and started throwing punches at a woman in her pajamas.
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Business class will feature 52 lie-flat suites in a 1-2-1 configuration with privacy dividers and an 18-inch entertainment screen.
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Despite Argentina still controlling possession at a 73-27 split, Jordan has found a few threats in the counter-attack.
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This was Chavarria’s first time showing an equal split of men’s and women’s on the runway, but in reality women have been his customers for a long time.
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Finding out the appropriate way to segment the market, determining the right segment to target, and positioning the company in the eyes of customers will enable a company to allocate its resources effectively.
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If a judge overturned Tuesday’s court ruling to extend polling place times, the provisional ballots would help election officials segment out votes cast after polls were originally scheduled to close.
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Organizers across the country say their 250th anniversary events celebrate parts of American history that are missing from the national conversation.
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The Beck Recreation Center closed last summer, and part of the building is scheduled for demolition.
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Fifty years and thousands of runs later, six of the original players still take to the diamond nearly every Sunday, swinging for the fences.
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Oracle Park’s spacious dimensions and San Francisco’s chilly climate have suppressed home runs for more than two decades, but this was a true no-doubt blast that cleared the left-center field fence by plenty of feet.
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Following the abrupt dissolution of Disney’s $1 billion investment in OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video app, Shin stressed that there are no plans to use A24’s existing IP to create GenAI tools.
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Coincidentally or not, that pained study of marital dissolution, co-starring Jolie’s then-husband Brad Pitt, intersected with the couple’s real-life breakup — not to mention Jolie’s grief over the death of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand.
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Looking along party lines, Republicans are closely divided on AI, as 38% expect a positive impact on the economy and 40% expecting a negative impact.
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Tens of thousands of North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the peninsula was divided by war in the 1950s.
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“Partition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/partition. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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