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
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Noun
  • Packets of fortified peanut paste that cost less than a dollar each can bring a malnourished child back from the brink of death within weeks.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • After his death in 1934, Schilling’s spice company merged with McCormick’s, a Baltimore firm, which remains a leading international food business.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Over time, the same system that profited from his brilliance proved indifferent to his vulnerability, and his life became reduced to a singular narrative of addiction and demise.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The Tribune played a key role in the demise of Nixon’s presidency.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • An Iranian military official said that Qatar has been delaying a probe into the fate of three pilots, whom Iran says have been held there for months, according to state media.
    Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
  • And sure as fate, three successive hits brought one run in, a walk loaded the bases, and the tying run came to the plate in the figure of Eli White.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • His arm talent and ability to protect the football could give FIU a more efficient passing attack.
    Alejandro Hernandez, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The three spacecraft will beam lasers at each other, looking for deviations in the travel time of those laser beams as evidence for the passing of a long-wavelength gravitational wave.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Local fisherman Wyck Crawford, played by a delightfully rascally Stephen Root, serves as Loftis’ human antagonist, warning the mayor of impending doom.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Enjoy perpetually clear skies and a sense of impending doom while looking after Cerberus.
    Brandon Follick, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026

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“Great divide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20divide. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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