halves 1 of 2

Definition of halvesnext
plural of half

halves

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of halve

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of halves
Noun
Instead of a typical intermission between the game’s two halves, the performance was an event of its own. — Alicia Urrea, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2026 To surmount the issue, Apple routed a flexible graphite pipe through the hinge itself to transfer heat between the two halves, thereby increasing the surface area available for heat dissipation. — Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2026 That's unlike most mobile controllers today, which either have a full-sized gamepad inelegantly clamp on to your phone, or stretch in the middle to accommodate your handset in between two halves of a controller. — New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2026 Perhaps even more concerning than the Broncos’ poor first halves is their inability to get anything going on opening drives. — Sam Jane, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026 Two budgets, two vendor lists, two review processes and often two teams reporting to the same CISO, answering different halves of the same question. — Aviv Mussinger, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026 Dissolving Lines The traditional separation between news outlets’ editorial and business halves has been facing pressure from both sides of that line. — Max Tani, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Denver’s offense has had slow starts to games, but Sean Payton finds something in the second halves. — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2026 According to Blankenship, bobcats cannot be legally hunted or trapped in Will County as harvesting is restricted to the southern and western halves of Illinois. — Elena Tittel, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for halves
Noun
  • Channels would connect different parts of the system, while the flexible fibers would regulate fluid movement and retain information.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Witnesses told South Korean media that the attacker appeared to have knives tied to both hands and stabbed people in different parts of the mall while moving up and down the floors on an escalator.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Al Drago / Getty The Maryland club tennis team forfeited its matches in the tournament, which continued for all other participating teams over the weekend.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Her departure was confirmed on Thursday, after just two rounds of matches in this season’s competition.
    — Leon Imber, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The design physically splits the site into two distinct zones.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
  • After a competition win, Fujino remarks that her dream was to see her manga animated, a comment that temporarily splits the two central characters.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • With two sections framing her face in the front, the back half of her head was teased and tangled into a little bouffant lift at the crown.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Separate sections were constructed at puppet scale, allowing animators to stage performances that could be integrated with miniature elements and digital backgrounds.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Stand runs computational fluid dynamics, physics models built on top of digital twins.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Aiming to protect what’s left of its buildings and monuments is a converted Volkswagen Crafter—the ARK III, a mobile 3D-scanning lab that creates digital twins of sacred and historical structures for future restoration.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Education level divides Americans as well — just 47 percent of Americans without four-year degrees reported believing that science benefits most people, compared to 71 percent of college grads.
    — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Each cell type is characterized by particular gene-expression settings, which are inherited when a cell divides.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Directed by Kei Oikawa and adapted from the popular manga by Nagano, the fantasy feature follows the titular character and companions venturing to a remote island retreat before unraveling a supernatural peril.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
  • That sense of joy is carried over to its three companions on the EP.
    — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork, 10 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • While designing the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, in the 1990s, the architect would sit by the river that bifurcates the city, looking at different metal treatments.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 6 Dec. 2025
  • For example, Highway 17 currently bifurcates a piece planners hope to lock in through Los Gatos.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 July 2021

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“Halves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halves. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

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