subdivides

Definition of subdividesnext
present tense third-person singular of subdivide
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Verb
  • The Vistula River, which runs alongside Warsaw, also sort of divides it in half.
    Bridget Knowles, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 May 2026
  • The existing gate format divides the current terminal into two concourses, A and C, with gates designated by their concourse letter and gate number ― for example, Gate A2.
    Kate Kealey, Des Moines Register, 12 May 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • For example, Highway 17 currently bifurcates a piece planners hope to lock in through Los Gatos.
    San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 July 2021
Verb
  • 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.
    Andrew Jones, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Dolan dissects his estrangement from his mother after forty years of attempts at peace, and weaves in research and reportage about child abuse and trauma.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Hobart City attorney Heather McCarthy said the petitioners will need to provide the city with an approval letter from NIPSCO since a NIPSCO line that bisects the property is owned by that utility.
    Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • The Israeli military has blown up several bridges over the river – which bisects Lebanon – over the past days, as part of a broader assault in the south.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • With a rock in a sock, Racine cleaves her own bloody swath down her father’s path, embracing her genetic destiny.
    Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 15 May 2026
  • This enzyme cleaves the ester bonds in the neuronal portion of the back retina—the retinal pigment epithelium— to create a usable form of vitamin A, a molecule called 11-cis-retinal.
    Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • There’s a whole-house generator, central AC/heat, and mini-splits to keep things feeling comfortable no matter the weather.
    Clio Chang, Curbed, 17 May 2026
  • Once it’s discovered that there’s a contingent of hostile infiltrators and not just one, the action splits between the cops in town and Sung-ki and his buddies in the mountainside forest, where Na steers the story deeper into classic sci-fi territory.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
Verb
  • That shift is often what separates stable performers from high potential employees.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • During the blaze, Alireza Namayandeh, a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, collected samples of the smoke at a Pasadena park within the plume, using a device that filters and separates the particles.
    Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • The settlement also resolves those claims, according to the DOJ.
    Nandika Chatterjee, Time, 18 May 2026
  • The verdict, reached Wednesday after a trial in federal court in Chicago, resolves one of the last remaining wrongful death lawsuits filed in connection with the disaster that killed all 157 people aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.
    Rio Yamat, Fortune, 15 May 2026
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“Subdivides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subdivides. Accessed 19 May. 2026.

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