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Recent Examples of subdivide
Mitigation measures include subdividing larger government offices into smaller, more manageable parcels so other businesses can move in.
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Kevin Williams, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
The new owner plans to tear down the lodge and subdivide the property into private homes.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
For states in which data is subdivided by number of doses, MMR vaccination is counted by the second dose.
—Jocelyn Shek, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
The editor was intelligent and could handle different types of text according to its context, and the user could subdivide the large document workspace into multiple subdocuments, all kept together.
—Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
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Kevin Williams, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
The new owner plans to tear down the lodge and subdivide the property into private homes.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
For states in which data is subdivided by number of doses, MMR vaccination is counted by the second dose.
—Jocelyn Shek, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
The editor was intelligent and could handle different types of text according to its context, and the user could subdivide the large document workspace into multiple subdocuments, all kept together.
—Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subdivide
Verb
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Footage of the shooting has divided viewers, with finger-pointing over who was the aggressor and who was the victim.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Jan. 2026
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From then until now, the image of a plate divided into sections has more clearly depicted what serving sizes should look like in an actual meal.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
8 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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Arsenal’s first half in the 4-1 home win against Aston Villa a week ago — when the visitors continuously broke through the middle of the pitch — was the perfect example of what happens when their partnership is split up, in this case by Rice’s knee injury.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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In the aftermath, Venezuelan society became further split between the wealthy, who wanted to work with the US, and the working class, who sought autonomy from the US.—
James Trapani,
Fortune,
6 Jan. 2026
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Half of the figurine is dissected to show how Buddy is truly born in indigo.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Nov. 2025
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Douglas dissected the testimony from the school staffers and their actions the day of the shooting and how information was conveyed to the administrator.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
5 Nov. 2025
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After it was collected, it was then segmented by state and city, and an index was created to rank the most and least Christmassy states and cities in America.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
20 Dec. 2025
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The work is segmented, each employee tasked with one of 180 watchmaking crafts.—
Jon Wertheim,
CBS News,
8 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Successfully translating the songs and script of a beloved musical onto film is no easy feat, but the task was made even more challenging from Chu and his team when it was decided to bisect the story into two separate parts.—
Kristin Robinson,
Billboard,
6 Nov. 2025
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Perhaps the most intriguing thing shown here are the tracks bisecting Park Street.—
Randy Mason,
Kansas City Star,
15 Oct. 2025
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The researchers used a single high radiation dose, whereas human treatments are usually fractionated – that is, given in smaller doses over time.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Oct. 2025
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Dent corn is fractionated into its various elements (starch, protein/germ, oil and moisture).—
WWD,
WWD,
16 Oct. 2024
Verb
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No longer are films in languages other than English partitioned from consideration in other categories, save for a few outliers.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
11 Dec. 2025
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In 1947: The United Nations adopted a plan to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
29 Nov. 2025
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“Subdivide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subdivide. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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