as in death
the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities
many religions claim to know what happens after we cross the great divide
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Recent Examples of great divide
Society has been rocked in the past seven days by comedy and politics, by debates about authoritarianism and free speech, and by a reckoning about the great divide across the United States.
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
And that isn’t even close to the scariest part when considering what might resume being a great divide between the Padres and Dodgers the rest of the regular season (and possibly in the postseason).
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
The league title might already be in the bag for one of them, or even a dark horse that doesn’t come from either side of Spanish football’s great divide.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
With the United States leading the way, the rich world crossed a great divide—a divide separating centuries of slow growth, poor health, and anemic technical progress from one of hitherto undreamed-of material comfort and seemingly limitless economic potential.
—Jacob S. Hacker, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2016
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
And that isn’t even close to the scariest part when considering what might resume being a great divide between the Padres and Dodgers the rest of the regular season (and possibly in the postseason).
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
The league title might already be in the bag for one of them, or even a dark horse that doesn’t come from either side of Spanish football’s great divide.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
With the United States leading the way, the rich world crossed a great divide—a divide separating centuries of slow growth, poor health, and anemic technical progress from one of hitherto undreamed-of material comfort and seemingly limitless economic potential.
—Jacob S. Hacker, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for great divide
Noun
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The music publication Revolver reported in a 2023 article about Cold as Life that the hard rock band continued to perform after its frontman’s death.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
14 May 2026
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Since 2018, authorities had used advanced DNA evidence to link Brashers to the strangulation death of a South Carolina woman in 1990, the 1997 rape of a 14-year-old girl in Tennessee and the shooting of a mother and daughter in Missouri in 1998.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 May 2026
Noun
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D’Amaro has weathered a few bumps in his initial weeks on the job, however, among them the Bachelor meltdown, new attacks on Jimmy Kimmel, layoffs and the demise of a deal with OpenAI that was made on Iger’s watch.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
12 May 2026
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Now the airline’s demise has cleared the way for competitors to raise their prices—and has left roughly seventeen thousand people out of work.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
Noun
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The fate of the MV Hondius has sparked international alarm after three passengers died in an outbreak of the rare virus for which no vaccines or specific treatments exist.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
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By the 1980s, however, many of the area’s mines and factories had closed and the slow withdrawal of the industries that built the place left Wrexham facing the same post-industrial fate that had decimated blue-collar communities all over the world.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
Noun
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He should be selected for his world-class passing and set pieces alone.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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Parents cheer the passing of a resolution to limit screen time at a recent Los Angeles school board meeting.—
Tyler Kingkade,
NBC news,
12 May 2026
Noun
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The result is the societal equivalent of what we economists call a doom loop.—
Allison Schrager,
Boston Herald,
8 May 2026
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Inevitably, team evil has cooler powers, like Sindel’s scream and Kung Lao’s hat of doom, but in addition to allotting an inordinate amount of its combat time to Shao Kahn, who’s just a hulking guy with a hammer, the movie’s big visual idea is characters blasting one another with beams.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
6 May 2026
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“Great divide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20divide. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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