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Recent Examples of halve
Feeder vessels will halve sailing time.
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M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
That plan would halve the travel time for light rail passengers.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The new proposal would roughly halve the company’s original request to hike customer rates by nearly $10 billion over four years, which is believed to be the highest rate hike request in American history.
—Emily L. Mahoney, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
Overfishing has driven the rapid evolution of eastern Baltic cod, causing their body length to halve between 1996 and 2019.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
That plan would halve the travel time for light rail passengers.
—Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The new proposal would roughly halve the company’s original request to hike customer rates by nearly $10 billion over four years, which is believed to be the highest rate hike request in American history.
—Emily L. Mahoney, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
Overfishing has driven the rapid evolution of eastern Baltic cod, causing their body length to halve between 1996 and 2019.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halve
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In the old days beggars were drawn and quartered in that square.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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Sprinkle quartered cookies over sherbet mixture, pressing gently into the mixture.—
Ann Taylor Pittman,
Southern Living,
30 Oct. 2025
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Sometimes lightning hits the mountainside and splits or burns a tree.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Jeanty, initially lined up in the right slot, motioned into the backfield, leaving Bowers and wide receiver Jakobi Meyers lined up to that side, with receivers Tyler Lockett and Tre Tucker split to the left.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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Qianlong took a page from the design of private gardens in southern China to make the layout more compact, and divided the site into four connected courtyards, two of which are currently open to the public, from south to north.—
Fred He,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Engineers divide conventional aircraft into three main lightning zones.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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Successfully translating the songs and script of a beloved musical onto film is no easy feat, but the task was made even more challenging from Chu and his team when it was decided to bisect the story into two separate parts.—
Kristin Robinson,
Billboard,
6 Nov. 2025
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Perhaps the most intriguing thing shown here are the tracks bisecting Park Street.—
Randy Mason,
Kansas City Star,
15 Oct. 2025
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These diagrams break sentences down into noun phrases and verb phrases and then further subdivide them into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and so forth.—
Steve Nadis,
Quanta Magazine,
31 Oct. 2025
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His family reportedly subdivided and then sold off the entire property, including its farmlands, for $4.5 million in 2013.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
6 Oct. 2025
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Wikipedia also represents an earlier, democratic vision for the open web, before giant tech platforms came to dominate and segment the internet.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
28 Oct. 2025
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Hill is also changing the way the business is segmented and returning it to its historical roots.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,
CNBC,
6 Oct. 2025
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America’s economy has been increasingly bifurcated for quite some time – with the exception of a few years following the pandemic.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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Looking ahead, Rees said the North American consumer is bifurcated, with highly affluent shoppers in great financial shape and a large portion of customers at the lower end who are super cautious about their spending and buying closer to need.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
30 Oct. 2025
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Half of the figurine is dissected to show how Buddy is truly born in indigo.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Nov. 2025
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Douglas dissected the testimony from the school staffers and their actions the day of the shooting and how information was conveyed to the administrator.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Halve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halve. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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