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Recent Examples of halve
Bitcoin halved in value, to $15,500 from $31,000, but the company continued holding its bitcoin throughout.
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Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 4 June 2025
The goods trade deficit nearly halved, to around $88 billion.
—Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025
With the goal of halving food waste by 2030, Four Seasons partnered with Winnow Solutions at properties from Madrid to Costa Rica.
—Jen Rose Smith, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025
Furthermore, Lorraine’s run time will be halved to 30 minutes.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 May 2025
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Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 4 June 2025
The goods trade deficit nearly halved, to around $88 billion.
—Arkansas Online, 31 May 2025
With the goal of halving food waste by 2030, Four Seasons partnered with Winnow Solutions at properties from Madrid to Costa Rica.
—Jen Rose Smith, AFAR Media, 27 May 2025
Furthermore, Lorraine’s run time will be halved to 30 minutes.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halve
Verb
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In Middletown, Portland, and Cromwell 2,000 are left homeless, and many are quartered in the State Armory, the Salvation Army headquarters, and the Swedish Orphanage in Cromwell.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2025
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People in the Middle Ages were drawn and quartered, boiled in oil, crucified, drowned and burned alive, with the latter also present in the U.S. in the 18th century.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
Verb
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Boomers’ children aren’t getting hitched as easily, and those who do are less likely to split up.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
20 June 2025
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The parents tried to compromise, suggesting the in-laws split their visit between the two families.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
20 June 2025
Verb
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The brand’s production is divided between Paris and Istanbul, the latter being a city with family ties for India.—
Andrea Onate,
Footwear News,
30 June 2025
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The Oval Office’s ‘One, Big, Beautiful Bill’ has divided opinion, after estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found the policies would cost the poorest Americans roughly $1,600 a year while increasing the income of the wealthiest households by an average of $12,000 annually.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
29 June 2025
Verb
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Lawrence showed him a series of complex, bisected 3-D shapes, then reassembled them into weirder shapes.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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And look: their outfits follow basic tailoring principles: jackets bisect halfway from collar to floor; jacket silhouette flows into trousers.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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The home’s basement appeared to have been subdivided into single rooms separately rented out by individual tenants.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
13 June 2025
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The property, located on the north side of Route 20 and west of Hilliard Drive, was subdivided into 15 lots in 1988 but was never developed, Latinovic said.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
3 June 2025
Verb
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Classrooms are often segmented into teams or cohorts, each assigned labels to reinforce group identity and belonging (for example, red and blue teams).—
Dr. Rami Kaminski,
Time,
18 June 2025
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From segmenting your audiences to optimizing ad bids, agentic AI can complete a wide range of tasks at scale.—
Chris O'Neill,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
Verb
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For example, May 2025 has seen bitcoin achieve fresh all-time-highs even in the face of economic data suggesting the U.S. economy is slowing, continued volatility around tariff and trade headlines, and a political environment that continues to be bifurcated along party lines.—
Sean Stein Smith,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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And most crucially, perhaps, was my nose: bare, no longer horizontally bifurcated by a ridge of black acetate.—
Alice Gregory,
Vogue,
4 June 2025
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Her every move and fashion choice was dissected ad nauseum.—
Marc Malkin,
Variety,
19 June 2025
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However, some families may need to further dissect some of the more complex themes with kids afterwards.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Parents,
17 June 2025
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“Halve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halve. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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