great divide

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Recent Examples of great divide Now, the conversation around golf’s great divide has flared up again. — Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2025 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. — 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 See All Example Sentences for great divide
Recent Examples of Synonyms for great divide
Noun
  • Quavo recently opened up about how the death of his nephew and Migos groupmate Takeoff impacted his then-fractured relationship with fellow group member Offset.
    — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
  • When the event is death or violence, forecasting is readily perceived as not only monetizing harm but possibly even incentivizing it.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • And its sudden demise comes amidst a continuing decline in funding for cultural and scientific institutions.
    — Andrew Stelzer, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026
  • In recent weeks, some leading AI firms have warned that their models’ coding abilities could foment humanity’s demise.
    — Shun Graves, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Dimitrios Kambouris | Getty Images Michael Burry is moving up the timeline for his bearish thesis on the fate of the artificial intelligence boom.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026
  • On a political level, Shelley’s monster pandemic served as a warning of what horrifying fates might await the whole of humanity if conflict and irresponsibility were left unchecked worldwide.
    — Eileen Hunt, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Thanks to sticky coverage in the secondary, TCU held BYU quarterback Bear Bachmeier to the worst throwing game of his career, as the sophomore managed just 62 passing yards.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Reynolds set a career high with 295 passing yards, but that was because the Hurricanes forced the Tigers to largely abandon the ground attack.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Within this literature, no decade is more doom-laden than the nineteen-thirties, when misguided hope and willful blindness led the world’s democracies to grossly underestimate the threat of Fascism.
    — Beverly Gage, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Yet one demographic may still have some reason to restrict their doom-scrolling and YouTube watching – pregnant mothers.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026

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“Great divide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20divide. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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