partitioned

Definition of partitionednext
past tense of partition

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Verb
  • Best Score was divided between musicals and dramas, and some craft categories between black-and-white and color, so there was no way a film could have been nominated for everything.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The company spent three days last week building the final version of the structure, which is divided into sections on rails so it can be assembled and taken apart without doing so over the rink itself.
    Joe Smith, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The pond sits about 100 feet from the house, separated by an embankment.
    Marissa Armas, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The Rockets, Lakers, Timberwolves and Suns are all separated by two games in the fourth to seventh positions.
    Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • White Sox General Manager Chris Getz said Sandlin, a 24-year-old righty who split time last year in Triple-A and Double-A, will compete for a spot in the rotation at spring training.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The Riverside County sheriff, a conservative Republican, leads recent California governor’s race polls as eight Democratic candidates split the left’s votes, a trend Matt Mahan’s entry could amplify.
    Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 1 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • In fact, the trend in recent times has been to rejoin urban neighborhoods that were bisected by interstate highway construction in the 1960s.
    Ian Savage, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
  • That depth matters in a season bisected by the FIFA World Cup, which runs June 11-July 19 and forces MLS into a seven-week hiatus.
    Colin Cerniglia, Charlotte Observer, 12 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • They were shared again and again, dissected and debated by journalists, politicians, lawyers, activists and millions of people.
    Maggie Vespa, NBC news, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Support and apprehension from lobbyists, lawmakers Almost every lawmaker and lobbyist who testified for or against the bill as it was dissected for hours across three committee hearings supported the bill's intention.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 29 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • America’s economy has been increasingly bifurcated for quite some time – with the exception of a few years following the pandemic.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Looking ahead, Rees said the North American consumer is bifurcated, with highly affluent shoppers in great financial shape and a large portion of customers at the lower end who are super cautious about their spending and buying closer to need.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Because of Proposition 50, the current, deep-red district will be cleaved into three pieces.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The job cuts have been anticipated for weeks, particularly because NBC News Group, an umbrella division that encompassed both the aforementioned cable networks as well as businesses associated with NBC News, is being cleaved in two, and revenue from cable will now go to feed operations at Versant.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Lebanese Information Minister Paul Morcos said other issues remain to be resolved between the two countries, including the fate of Lebanese believed to have been disappeared into Syrian prisons during Assad's rule and the demarcation of the border between the two countries.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Jan. 2026
  • The document—which has already been widely shared by politicians and political commentators—includes some brief details about how law enforcement followed up on the tips but not about whether the tips were resolved.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
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“Partitioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/partitioned. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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