partitioning

present participle of partition

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Verb
  • The singer's annual holiday clip is dividing fans this year.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Similar efforts have emerged in Missouri, where the state legislature passed a new map dividing Kansas City among three congressional districts.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Experts are especially alarmed that the CDC is investigating splitting up the MMR vaccine, which protects kids against measles, mumps and rubella in one shot.
    NPR, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The singer went on to date actor Chase Stokes for three years before splitting this past September.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 7 Nov. 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
  • This bipartisan understanding has shaped the United States’ China policy, which now focuses on warfighting, military deterrence, and decoupling.
    David C. Kang, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2025
  • By decoupling dehumidification from active cooling, the approach reduces energy needs compared with conventional dehumidification.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Great Again slogan appears just below the line separating overt and covert white supremacy.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Additionally, parchment is often used for storage purposes, separating layers of baked goods like cookies or brownies to prevent them from sticking together.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 10 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • This also happens at a moment where the venture capital goalposts are moving—the industry is bifurcating into asset managers and smaller shops, while politics is becoming an increasingly complicated flashpoint.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The lens surface gradually transitions in prescription strength, with no lines bifurcating your vision.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The technique starts with a minuscule sample of tissue; for example, in the makeshift lab at the hotel in Malles Venosta, researchers dissecting moths for sequencing also removed, for DNA barcoding, a leg of each moth whose species was not conclusively known.
    Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Several reports suggested that the queen helped fund the settlement in hopes of resolving the matter quickly and quietly.
    Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Over time, exceptions became the norm, and courts were tasked with resolving the gray areas.
    Bedassa Tadesse, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Partitioning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/partitioning. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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