halving

present participle of halve

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Verb
  • After splitting the first two games of the Fall Classic in Toronto, an 18-inning Game 3 went to the Dodgers in thrilling walk-off fashion, but since that fateful Freddie Freeman swing, the Dodgers have been outscored, 12-3, in the next two games.
    Gabe Smallson, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Judge Melissa Moore Murphy also ordered Snelling to serve out the remainder of her house arrest at the home of her father, as opposed to splitting her time between both her mother and father's home as outlined in the court's initial pretrial release conditions.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Where to Stay While Umbria isn’t massive, dividing your trip into at least two home bases is highly recommended to appreciate the region’s slower tempo.
    John Skelton, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Sympodial orchids must be propagated by dividing them, not pruning or trimming them.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Dark Renaissance will teach you a great deal about Marlowe’s brilliance and the Elizabethan era—its theater, the aristocracy, the spy craft, and the finer points of drawing and quartering religious dissidents.
    Isaac Butler, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The closest buck was quartering away to my right, running hard.
    Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Perhaps the most intriguing thing shown here are the tracks bisecting Park Street.
    Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
  • On May 6, the sun began shining on the south side and the rings reappeared, albeit as nothing more than a thin bright line bisecting Saturn's disk.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And of course, from a more skeptical perspective, the whole project could be described as cleaving close to the wisdom of the strippers in Gypsy.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Yet, asked specifically about the fine hairs separating the top three undefeated teams in this first ranking, Mack Rhoades, the committee chair and athletic director at Baylor, sounded like a man torn between numbers and gut feelings.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • To overcome the challenge, the scientists used state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to sift through massive amounts of data, separating the elusive tWZ signal from background noise.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The Miami Herald spent more than two years dissecting the 2022 boat crash that killed 17-year-old Luciana ‘Lucy’ Fernandez and critically injured Katerina ‘Katy’ Puig.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Mbeumo misplaces a pass as United attack and his family groan before dissecting the move.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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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“Halving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halving. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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