cleaved

variants or clove or clave
past tense of cleave
as in adhered
to hold to something firmly as if by adhesion you should resolutely cleave to the facts in your report

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Recent Examples of cleaved The job cuts have been anticipated for weeks, particularly because NBC News Group, an umbrella division that encompassed both the aforementioned cable networks as well as businesses associated with NBC News, is being cleaved in two, and revenue from cable will now go to feed operations at Versant. Brian Steinberg, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025 The Israeli military has now begun its retreat out of Gaza City, and vacated the Netzarim Corridor, which had cleaved Gaza in two, between north and south. Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025 The first thing visitors approaching Quincy, Washington see is dry rolling hills, cleaved by the Columbia River. Monica Nickelsburg, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025 The mudslide cleaved through Dharali village, burying some houses. Reuters, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
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  • Participants adhered well, spending 73 percent of the study in ketosis.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Gomez clung to summer style in a white sundress.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This time was his time and with Gordon off the pitch, Woltemade grasped it and clung to it.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • My take on Don’t Think is that becoming overly cerebral, stuck exclusively in my head, inhibits flow.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The recurrent staging only makes the show’s narrative feel more insular, which works fine when there’s forward momentum, but this one is stuck looking backward.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Cleaved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleaved. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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