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Recent Examples of halve
Meanwhile, halve each potato and score the flesh by making a crosshatch pattern about ⅛-inch deep.
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Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 4 Feb. 2026
Using these tools and workflows can halve your time.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
The county also elected to halve the salary of the sheriff, who had beaten Skeet’s preferred candidate, and to eliminate two of six deputy positions.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
Low will halve the output and double the runtime to about 7 hours.
—New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2026
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Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 4 Feb. 2026
Using these tools and workflows can halve your time.
—Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
The county also elected to halve the salary of the sheriff, who had beaten Skeet’s preferred candidate, and to eliminate two of six deputy positions.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
Low will halve the output and double the runtime to about 7 hours.
—New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halve
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Once they're quartered, drizzle them with cream and top them with white cake mix and butter.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Feb. 2026
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Trim just the very end of the stem, then halve or quarter them to maximize the surface area for browning.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2026
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The title game will be March 4 at Unrivaled’s home arena in Miami, with a prize pool of $600,000 to be split among players from the championship-winning club.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2026
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Britain split away on the second leg, looking for better wind.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 Mar. 2026
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Party strategists in both camps acknowledge that a prolonged and bitter runoff could leave Republicans divided heading into the fall.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
4 Mar. 2026
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Committee members were split on proposals to close schools — divided between the belief that campuses with few students burden staff and provide limited resources, and the worry that combining small schools will create overcrowding, split communities and harm students.—
Molly Gibbs,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
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During the game, Kailey sat with their mother, Carol, in the middle of the stands that bisected each student section.—
Patrick Z. McGavin,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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The duffel features zippered compartments on both ends, a mesh internal organization pocket, and a removable divider that bisects the generous main compartment, which is easily accessible via a 270-degree-zippered flap.—
Drew Zieff,
Outside,
17 Feb. 2026
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Then came waves of railroad workers—Scandinavian, Irish, especially—renting rooms in an ever-altering house, subdivided into two units, then three; even the house number changed..—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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The original 37-acre La Questa Vineyard, subdivided into three parcels, survived its ravages.—
Laura Ness,
Mercury News,
18 Jan. 2026
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Would Brzezinski want the full-time role, which would require segmenting his time from his area of expertise, the salary cap?—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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But Stevens said the treatment patients take will segment according to the other health conditions a person has on top of obesity, such as fatty liver disease, chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
23 Jan. 2026
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By the end of the 20th century, the assignments bifurcated.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
26 Feb. 2026
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In practice, CVs are being used across a market that has become increasingly bifurcated.—
Sunaina Sinha Haldea,
Fortune,
14 Feb. 2026
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Militaries always maintain secrecy amid armed conflicts, and journalists always gather information from a variety of sources, which in 2026 means scouring commercial satellite imagery and dissecting eyewitness videos to better understand the battlefield.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
4 Mar. 2026
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Geeta Gandbhir's The Perfect Neighbor does so by cleverly piecing together police body camera footage, interrogation video and audio from witness interviews to dissect two years of events that led to Owens' death and Lorincz's subsequent manslaughter conviction.—
Davi Merchan,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Halve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halve. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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