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Recent Examples of subdivide
Others contain heavy metal doors, with pull-down handles, opening onto side decks that were once used by sailors to move around the ship but now are subdivided into private, sea view balconies.
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Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
This year, there 228 series submissions across drama, comedy and limited or anthology, which means there are still plenty of contenders if Emmy were to subdivide categories.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025
Its terminal supply is hard-limited to 21 million, its ledger is updated every ten minutes with no central authority, each unit subdivides into one-hundred-million ‘sats,’ and anyone with an open-source client can validate its authenticity.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
Riverside Gardens was subdivided in the early 20th century before Jefferson County had zoning laws.
—Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
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Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
This year, there 228 series submissions across drama, comedy and limited or anthology, which means there are still plenty of contenders if Emmy were to subdivide categories.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Aug. 2025
Its terminal supply is hard-limited to 21 million, its ledger is updated every ten minutes with no central authority, each unit subdivides into one-hundred-million ‘sats,’ and anyone with an open-source client can validate its authenticity.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
Riverside Gardens was subdivided in the early 20th century before Jefferson County had zoning laws.
—Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subdivide
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Carriage 3 was conceived and crafted in-house, cleverly using a sliding Victorian rail carriage door to divide the kitchen from the living and sleeping compartments, which are accessed via beautiful (and functional) fold-away steps.—
Chloe Frost-Smith,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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Viewers can also expect health emergencies, explosive confrontations and the fallout from a public scandal that threatens to divide the family even further.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
24 Sep. 2025
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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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These goals may appear bifurcated, but they will become increasingly intertwined in the years ahead.—
GARY ROUGHEAD,
Foreign Affairs,
2 Sep. 2025
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Notably, the offer was split, with one direction centering on soft tailoring, with modal and other fluid fabrics shown for blazers and trousers.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
22 Sep. 2025
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The English-language movie boasts one of Henry Golding’s finest performances, some critics said, though the final results split reviewers.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
22 Sep. 2025
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Similar reasoning can be applied when dissecting the playing time uptick veteran wideout David Moore saw Sunday; Moore played 56 snaps Sunday (97%), which is more than every other offensive player who is not a lineman or who doesn’t have the last name Young.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Sep. 2025
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Bill of the Month is a crowdsourced investigation by KFF Health News and The Washington Post’s Well+Being that dissects and explains medical bills.—
Katheryn Houghton,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Appreciate the plurality of their needs and segment them into the top three priorities.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement In previous negotiations, Beijing has repeatedly suggested segmenting the border dispute—settling the largely uncontested Sikkim-Tibet sector of the border—before addressing the rest.—
Shyam Saran,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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On August 20, Israel approved the construction of the controversial E1 settlement that effectively bisects the West Bank; Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explicitly framed the move as a response to calls for Palestinian statehood.—
SHIRA EFRON,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Sep. 2025
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But seeing all these grocery items perfectly bisected is so satisfying.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 2025
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Dent corn is fractionated into its various elements (starch, protein/germ, oil and moisture).—
WWD,
WWD,
16 Oct. 2024
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The initial wave fractionated into smaller 25-foot waves, which reverberated across the fjord for over a week.—
Carly Miller,
Forbes,
23 Sep. 2024
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Meanwhile, muntins are the thin, vertical and horizontal pieces of wood that form a pattern within that latticework and provide structure for fittings such as Shoji screens and Fusuma sliding doors that are used to partition rooms in a house.—
Isabelle Kliger,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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In 1920, the British government, under the Government of Ireland Act, partitioned Ireland, carving off six counties in the north and setting up the Protestant majority government of Northern Ireland.—
Philip Metres
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Subdivide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subdivide. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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