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as in portion
one of the pieces from which something is designed to be assembled
one of the partitions of a prefabricated house
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as in split
the act or process of a whole separating into two or more parts or pieces
the partition of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia
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as in to segment
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Recent Examples of partition
Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
San Diego city and fire inspectors found that the platform that fell was improperly constructed, as were walls, mezzanines, stairs, partitions, restrooms, locker rooms and offices throughout the space, according to the report.
—Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2025
The United Nations adopted a plan to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.
—The Arizona Republic, 28 Nov. 2024
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Noun
Google mandates that 75% of this 32GB must be allocated to the data partition, which stores preinstalled system apps, system app data, certain system files, and crucially, all user apps and files.
—Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
San Diego city and fire inspectors found that the platform that fell was improperly constructed, as were walls, mezzanines, stairs, partitions, restrooms, locker rooms and offices throughout the space, according to the report.
—Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
Verb
The county will also partition a portion of the network to serve its administrative functions, eliminating its need for an external internet provider at its buildings.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2025
The United Nations adopted a plan to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.
—The Arizona Republic, 28 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for partition
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These include a change to the portion of state Medicaid costs borne by the federal government, which is currently at 90% for states that elected to expand their eligible Medicaid population.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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The biggest portion of those cuts would be a reduction in K-12 funding by more than $4.5 billion.—
Ayana Archie,
NPR,
8 May 2025
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Fine, gauzy textiles are used directly within many of the pieces, as well as in the form of a subtle room divider — the closest thing to an internal wall in the main space.—
Megan Williams,
CNN Money,
1 May 2025
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Undeniably glamorous, this 8-foot-long folding room divider is one-of-a-kind.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
29 Apr. 2025
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The latter split at the end of the 1968 season due to financial disagreements and eventually founded the current PGA Tour.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 May 2025
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Following the split, she was also rumored to be dating Prince Constantine-Alexios of Greece and Denmark.—
Rachel McRady,
People.com,
16 May 2025
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In the same report, Vizient highlights that a midwestern health system segmented their patients into three groups: loyal, splitter and uncommitted.—
Corey Scurlock,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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The Erie Canal and New York State’s other canals are segmented and managed by a series of locks, lift bridges, guard gates and movable dams that control water flow and vessel traffic.—
Gary Stoller,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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One thing for certain, Trusty said, is that the fancy cars, houses and planes that Combs has accumulated are in the prosecutors’ crosshairs, as are any of his companies that could broadly be construed as being part of the racketeering enterprise in the slightest of ways.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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One of those places was a little diner called The Waffle Hut, which had been part of our town for several decades.—
Gwen Rockwood,
Arkansas Online,
15 May 2025
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The ball ended up clearing the fence at Sutter Health Park as Yankee center fielder Trent Grisham ran out of room and his back hit the wall.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacbee.com,
11 May 2025
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His wood back fence was gone, but his dog and house were fine.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
10 May 2025
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The dissolution of the PKK raises a host of questions for the Islamist government of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the pro-American Kurdish forces (YPG) in northern Syrian who helped defeat the Islamist State terrorist movement.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
12 May 2025
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More broadly, the dissolution of the foreign aid program is a significant example of a broader trend the administration is pursuing: sacrificing soft power for hard power.—
Time,
Time,
12 May 2025
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What's Next Breastfeeding often divides public opinion, and will likely spark similar debates online in the future.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
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On our trip to Greenville, Victor stopped at a road that divides two burial grounds in town.—
Erika Hayasaki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 May 2025
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“Partition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/partition. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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