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as in to split
to set or force apart
Volunteers divided the donated groceries into several dozen piles.
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as in to separate
to go or move in different directions from a central point
The group divided based on those who wanted to go swimming and those who didn't.
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as in to polarize
to cause (people) to break up into opposing groups
Opinions about the war divided people who are otherwise likeminded.
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Recent Examples of divide
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
This calculation used annual salary ranges divided by the number of work weeks.
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Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
24 June 2026
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
The divide is already emerging and increasingly widening as clients place greater emphasis on speed, certainty, and alignment with business outcomes.
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Rachel Proffitt,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
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Verb
The agency divided the aircraft into two separate groups.
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Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
This calculation used annual salary ranges divided by the number of work weeks.
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Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
24 June 2026
Noun
The divide is most prominent in the 10th Congressional District, which spans Lower Manhattan and brownstone neighborhoods of Brooklyn like Cobble Hill and Park Slope.
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Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
The divide is already emerging and increasingly widening as clients place greater emphasis on speed, certainty, and alignment with business outcomes.
—
Rachel Proffitt,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for divide
Verb
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The result is uncommon room layouts like the tri-suite king room equipped with two twin-sized beds and a king bed split by a privacy divider that doubles as a playful art installation.
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Cutright, who was not charged with murder, split from Devastating Pyrotechnics to form Blackstar Fireworks on the property in 2023.
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By 58% to 42%, those surveyed said Americans were mostly separated by different values, not bound by shared ones.
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De la Espriella strikes reassuring tone With only a few hundred thousand votes separating the two candidates, De la Espriella used his victory speech to try to calm his critics.
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The legal action is part of a broader series of disputes in the streaming industry over carriage rights, bundling requirements and pricing control.
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The dispute over Mississippi's law dates back to 2024, when the Republican National Committee and Mississippi's Libertarian Party filed lawsuits challenging the ballot-receipt deadline.
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Decades of Hollywood empire-building ended with a quake in 2017 when Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch decided to sell much of his Fox entertainment holdings amid the rise of Netflix and other tech giants.
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But with the rise of generative AI, some breweries around the world are starting to be vocal about their displeasure of its use in the beer industry.
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If time permits, lock your home upon departure and disconnect utilities and appliances.
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Hobbs disconnected the state's voter database from the site and sent a quick reaction team to help fix whatever gap the foreign users had slipped through.
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Your father strides into the dining room, harried, shiny black hair parted to one side, his fingers buttoning the cuffs of his starched white collared shirt.
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The series recently parted ways with creator Chad Feehan.
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The fissure was visible before the war.
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So, too, does the idea that a soccer coach could close fissures that even the well-meaning among career politicians have failed to seal.
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Along with widespread highs in the 90s, the system will bring high humidity to the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, Duffus said, with more than two dozen states affected at its peak.
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The sprawling heat dome will linger over the East, particularly the I-95 corridor, and peak by Friday, just in time for the long Fourth of July weekend.
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“Divide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divide. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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