great divide

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Recent Examples of great divide As the August Bank Holiday weekend approached the U.K. industry was abuzz with rumors that stadium dates had been booked and that the great divide between Noel and Liam Gallagher had been bridged. Thomas Smith, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2024 Read more Dental access is an American 'crisis' There’s a great divide among American dental care, with some people forced to live with pain and shame while others flash five-figure veneers. Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024 There's a great divide for Americans who need dental care with some forced to live with pain and shame while others flash five figure veneers. Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024 That marked a great divide, a shift in my understanding of myself as autonomous rather than a sheet in the wind. Lucy Corin, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for great divide
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Noun
  • For Pope Francis, Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, the church camerlengo, or cardinal chamberlain (the official that manages the household of the pope), presided over the certification of death and the placement of the body in a coffin.
    George Petras, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The news of his death began a nine-day period of mourning, known as Novendiale.
    Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The 1982 film Missing, directed by Costa-Gavras, brought global attention to the case and implied U.S. involvement in Horman’s demise.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The current season of Sister Wives is showing how the Brown family continues to navigate life after the demise of their once-happy polygamous brood.
    Dory Jackson, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But in a twist of fate, his estranged grandfather, the notorious outlaw Harland Rust (Baldwin), breaks him out of jail, and the two flee to Mexico.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 1 May 2025
  • Perhaps his fate will be dictated by who United are able to bring in.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Miami Heat forward Kevin Love has announced the passing of his father, Stan.
    Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
  • On Sunday night, Love announced the passing of his father.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • They were in fact treated like psychic seismographs, picking up disturbances and instability, prophecies of good fortune or doom.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Music seizes the reins and detonates the studied historicity viewers expect from stories about 20th-century music, pausing to highlight points the reader normally catches in articles about a movie rather than scenes in it: Yes, the blues begat both DOOM and doom.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Great divide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/great%20divide. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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