subdivide

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Recent Examples of subdivide 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 The basement of the two-family home where Jean’s body was discovered had been subdivided into single rooms separately rented out by individual tenants. Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 15 June 2025 Others encourage homeowners to subdivide their lots and sell a portion for development. Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 4 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for subdivide
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subdivide
Verb
  • But if your peonies are flowering less over time or nearby plants are encroaching on their growing space, dividing them in fall is one simple solution.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Every Democrat in the chamber supported the legislation while Republicans were evenly divided.
    Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The lens surface gradually transitions in prescription strength, with no lines bifurcating your vision.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • These goals may appear bifurcated, but they will become increasingly intertwined in the years ahead.
    GARY ROUGHEAD, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Kherson, Ukraine — Russia has launched a new bid to exert control over the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson by threatening key access roads with its drones and trying to split it in two by striking a vital bridge.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
  • One major critique of this season is that there was no need to split its episodes in half.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Cat Miller used to dissect complex financial reports with precision, crafting investment pitches that could move millions.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In Sacrifice, Gavras dissects myth-making in its many forms.
    Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Many SMBs also choose to segment their local-area Wi-Fi network to ensure sensitive data (such as credit card information from a point-of-sale system) is segregated and protected.
    Michael Flannery, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Polling was conducted online and segmented by gender, region, political affiliation, age, and race to ensure a representative sample.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • As a continent that’s bisected by the Equator, Africa is actually the least distorted of all in the Mercator projection.
    Big Think, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Witnesses said Israeli troops opened fire on crowds in the Netzarim Corridor, an Israeli military zone that bisects Gaza.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Dent corn is fractionated into its various elements (starch, protein/germ, oil and moisture).
    WWD, WWD, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The initial wave fractionated into smaller 25-foot waves, which reverberated across the fjord for over a week.
    Carly Miller, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • 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
  • In 1947: After three decades of agitation led by Mahatma Gandhi, India and Pakistan won independence from Great Britain and were partitioned into separate countries.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 15 Aug. 2025

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“Subdivide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subdivide. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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