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Druski's skit divides social media In the skit, Druski is seen portraying a white woman with blonde hair, which viewers compared to Erica Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.—
Taylor Ardrey,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2026 -
The river supplies drinking water and irrigation to tens of millions of people across the West, but the system that divides its water, based on agreements more than a century old, is under increasing strain after years of drought and declining reservoir levels.—
Amalia Roy,
FOXNews.com,
22 Mar. 2026
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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
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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
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Her own divorce, then, represented a shattering—of a home, of an identity, of a life—a process that Cusk dissects with a surgeon’s coolness and precision.—
Hayley Maitland,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2026
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Chris McKenna dissects a rollercoaster evening at Turf Moor.—
Chris McKenna,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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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
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On one side, cars speed past on the two-lane road that bisects the southern part of the state.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
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Where Hansen-Løve cleaves closely to her characters, Schanelec takes a step back, filming in long and middle distance shots.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2026
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Consider the unending angst about the team’s former name, which still cleaves fans into opposing camps.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Throughout her lifetime, muralist and collector Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad — who splits her time between Minnesota and California — has built a collection of paintings, sculptures and religious art that showcases the intersection of the geography of the American West with Latin American culture.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Mar. 2026
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Christian Brothers is among the largest private schools in New Jersey, a state that splits its playoffs into private and public school divisions.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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This is the first time the city’s office of Climate Action, Sustainability and Resiliency has offered assistance for organics recycling, which separates food scraps from other waste for processing into compost, a soil fertilizer.—
Miguel Otárola,
Denver Post,
27 Mar. 2026
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In government offices across the nation, bulletproof glass often separates workers from their customers, and City Hall doors that once opened at a single tug are now locked, or flanked by armed security and metal detectors.—
Krys Fluker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2026
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Under the agreement, which resolves the matter with no findings of wrongdoing or liability, Sutter must comply with additional monitoring and reporting requirements.—
Emma Hall,
Sacbee.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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Sadly, there is little chance of a sequel, as Nesbo neatly resolves the disparate futures of all the main characters.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Subdivides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subdivides. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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