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American political division has been deepening for decades, experts say, and one 2022 study found the country had reached levels of polarization not seen since the Great Depression and Civil War.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025 -
The stressors of the modern world, according to Piper, include political polarization; endless streams of catastrophic news on social media; workplace demands; environmental toxins; and widespread emotional suppression.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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That’s how spin-offs and breakups start: not with noise, but with accounting and segmentation.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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Under Donahoe, Nike moved away from its sport segmentation and instead broke up its business into women’s, men’s and kids.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,
CNBC,
26 June 2025
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This is a classic example of diffusion of responsibility, where leaders can wriggle out of being held accountable by pointing the finger elsewhere.—
Melissa A. Wheeler,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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His unorthodox policy views had a magnifying effect on major global trends that had been well underway before Trump was elected, including the global diffusion of power, rapid and disruptive technological change, and political polarization and policy volatility.—
REBECCA LISSNER,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Rodney, who has lived in Naperville’s Cress Creek subdivision for nearly 20 years, turned down sites in two strip malls, preferring a more historic setting.—
Karen Sorensen,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2025
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About 22 years ago, the couple moved it nearly two miles to its current spot on 10 acres after a developer wanted the surrounding land for a residential subdivision.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 June 2025
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Their familiarity with Iberian language and culture, combined with the dispersion of their community, positioned them to participate in the new global economy: trade in sugar, textiles, spices – and the trade in human lives, Atlantic slavery.—
Flora Cassen,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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The standard deviation measures price volatility, so the bands widen during periods of high volatility and contract during periods of low volatility, visually representing the dispersion of prices around the mean.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
23 June 2025
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