subdivided

Definition of subdividednext
past tense of subdivide

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for subdivided
Verb
  • If he’s confirmed by the Senate to lead the central bank after Chair Jerome Powell’s term ends in May, Warsh will preside over a 12-person rate-setting committee that has become starkly divided in recent months.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 15 Feb. 2026
  • The reception was packed with a who's who and just as the doors opened, the crowd divided like the Red Sea.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Weekly, Weber and Finger have kept reliable and amusing tabs on the ever-expanding universe of Whos and dissected the increasingly jumbled celebrity hierarchy.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The Band Perry’s career arc is one of the most dissected in all of country music.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • In practice, CVs are being used across a market that has become increasingly bifurcated.
    Sunaina Sinha Haldea, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Since then, the consumer economy has only become more bifurcated.
    Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Families have also complained about children being separated from them.
    Jordan Parker Aviation, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Monuments stand with many of these victims named, separated by state and county.
    Madeline Montgomery, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The conservatory opens out to a small woodland — call it Glazer Shire — bisected by a small creek.
    Mark Lamster Architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • Karaban almost had a costly turnover on an inbound play with 14 seconds left, but the Huskies fouled up three and Mulready split his free throw attempts, setting up the game-clinching freebies from the Huskies’ captain.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Although the servicing stop for the California Zephyr is too short to explore beyond the platform, Denver is a great overnight choice for passengers splitting up the 43-hour journey.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
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
  • Close-quartered and stylish, the movie begins at a Gothic New England mansion where the wealthy patriarch Harlan Thrombey has been found with his throat slit.
    Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In the old days beggars were drawn and quartered in that square.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Subdivided.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subdivided. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.

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