subdivided

past tense of subdivide

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subdivided
Verb
  • Scholars are perpetually divided.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The situation is a potential turnaround from just six months ago, when Democrats and their allies were divided and despondent.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Mahomes dissected the Lions' secondary on Sunday night, throwing for 257 yards and three touchdowns.
    Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Jurors, journalists and scores of public onlookers obsessively dissected the case.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • These goals may appear bifurcated, but they will become increasingly intertwined in the years ahead.
    GARY ROUGHEAD, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
  • It’s also oddly bifurcated into two noticeably chunks, with the first half focusing on Hank and Yvonne’s tender but touchy, highly tectchy relationship and the second half leaning into the gonzo forward momentum of a get-the-dough crime flick.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • To complete the family meditation, Ben Stiller puts his own children, Ella (23) and Quinlin (20), on camera, as well as his wife, Christine Taylor, from whom he was separated for several years (the two reconciled during the pandemic).
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • With the Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns all struggling to start the year, the Steelers have separated themselves from the rest of the AFC North.
    Mark Kern, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But seeing all these grocery items perfectly bisected is so satisfying.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • Atlanta scored first on a 38-yard field goal from Parker Romo, but that came after Huff and Sam Okuayinonu split a third-down sack to minimize a 19-play, 10 ½-minute drive.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Bigger than Alaska and Texas combined, West Antarctica is split from the eastern half of the continent by the Transantarctic Mountains, whose peaks are buried to their chins in ice.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • The Israeli military has now begun its retreat out of Gaza City, and vacated the Netzarim Corridor, which had cleaved Gaza in two, between north and south.
    Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But there was no coup insofar as the military remained quartered rather than actively joining the protests or issuing a threat to compel the prime minister to resign.
    John Joseph Chin, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Large game like moose must be quartered before it can be handled.
    Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Subdivided.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subdivided. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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