SUBDIVIDES Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

subdivides

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present tense third-person singular of subdivide

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The collapse of institutional rivalry The separation of powers divides authority among the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government to prevent too much power from becoming concentrated in any one place.

— Stephanie A, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
The method divides relative cost of delay by relative job duration.

— Dr. Timothy J. Giardino, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 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
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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In a conversation with THR, Sloyan dissects playing Margaret, the character’s dark path, surprise reveal, her demise and her pitch for a Margaret prequel.

— Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2026
Ward dissects the Black experience in America, reflects on her own experience as a young Black girl growing up in poverty in southern Mississippi, lauds the writers who influenced her, and examines her own motivations as a writer.

— The Know, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of dissects

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Seoul says Pyongyang has sent up to 7,000 workers to the border this year, with about 50 crossings of the Military Demarcation Line, which bisects the DMZ, to South Korea’s side of the border.

— Reuters, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026
Seoul says Pyongyang has sent up to 7,000 workers to the border this year, with about 50 crossings of the Military Demarcation Line, ⁠which bisects the DMZ, to South Korea’s side of the border.

— Reuters, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of bisects

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Parents ship young children abroad; white-collar professionals become fast-food workers; migration cleaves young lovers.

— Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
Mantel cleaves instead to a felicitous simplicity, to constructions that achieve consonance with the period but stop short of mimicry.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of cleaves

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The interface splits each 2-core fiber into two single-core fibers inside the repeater for efficient amplification, then merges them back into 2-core fibers.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
Mana splits his time between New York and South Florida, with places in Miami and Boca Raton.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of splits

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Greg Hernandez separates materials from a pile of rubble during the teardown of the Cabrini-Green projects at 1157 and 1159 Cleveland Ave.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2026
State Drive, an ugly black roadway, separates the Science Center and its new addition from the park’s Rose Garden, and serves as a sad connector to the rest of the park.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of separates

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The approach resolves the challenge of uniformly printing transport layers and perovskite films onto flexible substrates.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
Their goal was for the album to tell a story of radicalization, following a protagonist who shifts from complacency to an awareness of injustice and institutional oppression, and ultimately resolves to act against it.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

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