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as in separating
to set or force apart
volunteers divided the donated groceries into several dozen piles
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as in diverging
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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Recent Examples of dividing
The one-time 5% tax on the state’s billionaires has rocked Sacramento in recent months, sharply dividing Democrats and splintering labor coalitions.
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Grace Hase,
Mercury News,
26 June 2026
According to Steele, the bankruptcy trustee is now dividing the company’s assets, and the Cooper residents will likely only recover a small amount from the electric company.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 June 2026
Voices were raised and tempers ran high, dividing GOP lawmakers over the Iran war and a major election reform bill called the SAVE America Act, multiple attendees told reporters.
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Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
The high court ruled 6-3 in both cases, with the justices dividing along ideological lines.
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Sarah Matusek,
Christian Science Monitor,
25 June 2026
New church Less than a generation later, the Protestant Reformation transformed Christianity, dividing Europe and spawning brutal violence.
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Peter C. Mancall,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
When researchers wiped out 60 to 70% of fibroblasts in mice—at both adult and newborn stages—the skin’s stem cells kept dividing at completely normal rates.
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Peter Jurich,
Hartford Courant,
22 June 2026
This may make people more prone to multitasking, or dividing their attention across lots of different tasks at once.
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Zia Sherrell,
Health,
22 June 2026
But any time a cell is not actively dividing, its chromatin is unwound into what looks like a tangled mess.
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Philip Ball,
Quanta Magazine,
18 June 2026
Grace Hase,
Mercury News,
26 June 2026
According to Steele, the bankruptcy trustee is now dividing the company’s assets, and the Cooper residents will likely only recover a small amount from the electric company.
—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 June 2026
Voices were raised and tempers ran high, dividing GOP lawmakers over the Iran war and a major election reform bill called the SAVE America Act, multiple attendees told reporters.
—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
25 June 2026
The high court ruled 6-3 in both cases, with the justices dividing along ideological lines.
—
Sarah Matusek,
Christian Science Monitor,
25 June 2026
New church Less than a generation later, the Protestant Reformation transformed Christianity, dividing Europe and spawning brutal violence.
—
Peter C. Mancall,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
When researchers wiped out 60 to 70% of fibroblasts in mice—at both adult and newborn stages—the skin’s stem cells kept dividing at completely normal rates.
—
Peter Jurich,
Hartford Courant,
22 June 2026
This may make people more prone to multitasking, or dividing their attention across lots of different tasks at once.
—
Zia Sherrell,
Health,
22 June 2026
But any time a cell is not actively dividing, its chromatin is unwound into what looks like a tangled mess.
—
Philip Ball,
Quanta Magazine,
18 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dividing
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The challenge for investors is separating technical pressure from fundamental weakness.
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The Grammy-winning rapper, 41, filed for divorce from his podcaster wife, 46, on May 18 after separating May 9, according to a divorce filing obtained and reviewed by the USA TODAY Network on June 15.
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Amid the government’s heated rhetoric, our data shows public opinion on immigration in one of the country’s reddest agricultural states is diverging from national politics and may even be at odds with federal policy.
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After losing Saint Pepsi to trademark law, DeRobertis and future funk took diverging paths—the former towards nu-disco and synthpop, the latter towards a new artistic disposition made up of anime girls and neon colors.
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In total, the F4-425 Pro can hold up to a maximum of 120TB of data with the advantage of splitting storage across HDD and NVMe bays so that files for video editing or current projects can be stored on the ultra-fast SSDs, while archive files and backups can be stored on the HDDs.
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That’s sparked complaints of Americanization of the games – essentially splitting the two 45-minute halves into four 22-and-a-half-minute quarters.
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Instead of seeing that through, Sorsby put the controversy of him playing in 2026 to bed by parting ways with Texas Tech and entering the supplemental draft.
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The Falcons swapped three spots on their roster Wednesday after mandatory minicamp, adding a trio of United Football League players and parting ways with a group headlined by receiver Casey Washington.
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Get in the habit of disconnecting devices when you’re done using them.
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State governments Many states prevent utilities from disconnecting residential customers’ electricity, even if the bills aren’t paid.
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The nationalism is real too, but a man flying his country’s flag in a stranger’s city is not retreating into his nation.
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Because of Oracle’s retreating stock price, Ellison has been surpassed on the world’s list of wealthiest people by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell.
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