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Recent Examples of halve
There will still be the chance to display betting firms on the sleeves of kits, advertising boards and on training wear, but it is forecast that the value of some sponsorship deals could be halved in the next 12 months.
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Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 24 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
The game is set five years in the future, and imagines a Britain where predictive policing has halved crime rates.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 12 Aug. 2025
Piccini says the robot reduces fungicide reliance by up to 70%, cutting carbon dioxide and chemical inputs—an outcome aligned with the EU's comprehensive food policy framework, Farm to Fork, to halve pesticide use by 2030.
—Jill Barth, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 24 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
The game is set five years in the future, and imagines a Britain where predictive policing has halved crime rates.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 12 Aug. 2025
Piccini says the robot reduces fungicide reliance by up to 70%, cutting carbon dioxide and chemical inputs—an outcome aligned with the EU's comprehensive food policy framework, Farm to Fork, to halve pesticide use by 2030.
—Jill Barth, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halve
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This military incursion sparked the American Revolution and led to the Constitution's Third Amendment, forbidding troops from being quartered in homes during peacetime.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Aug. 2025
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LeMessurier also realized his engineers had miscalculated how much stress would be offset by the building’s weight during quartering winds.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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Others view it as a brazen attempt to split up Kansas City’s minority voters.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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That resulted in a hung parliament split between the National Rally, the left-wing New Popular Front, and Macron’s Renaissance bloc.—
Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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But if your peonies are flowering less over time or nearby plants are encroaching on their growing space, dividing them in fall is one simple solution.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 Sep. 2025
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Every Democrat in the chamber supported the legislation while Republicans were evenly divided.—
Clara Hendrickson,
Freep.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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As a continent that’s bisected by the Equator, Africa is actually the least distorted of all in the Mercator projection.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
2 Sep. 2025
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Witnesses said Israeli troops opened fire on crowds in the Netzarim Corridor, an Israeli military zone that bisects Gaza.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 Sep. 2025
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Between every frame a disjunctive gap intrudes, subdividing the whole back into its parts, and thereby confronting the viewer with the plethora of copy culture, a barely manageable immensity of data.—
Jan Tumlir,
Artforum,
1 Sep. 2025
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Others contain heavy metal doors, with pull-down handles, opening onto side decks that were once used by sailors to move around the ship but now are subdivided into private, sea view balconies.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
21 Aug. 2025
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Online social networks are getting smaller and more intimate, as young people organize into group chats and segment their identities across different platforms.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Many SMBs also choose to segment their local-area Wi-Fi network to ensure sensitive data (such as credit card information from a point-of-sale system) is segregated and protected.—
Michael Flannery,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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The lens surface gradually transitions in prescription strength, with no lines bifurcating your vision.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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These goals may appear bifurcated, but they will become increasingly intertwined in the years ahead.—
GARY ROUGHEAD,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Sep. 2025
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Cat Miller used to dissect complex financial reports with precision, crafting investment pitches that could move millions.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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In Sacrifice, Gavras dissects myth-making in its many forms.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Halve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halve. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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