divide
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Species that live this way form colonies containing overlapping generations, cooperate in raising young and divide reproductive responsibilities.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Reaction across online forums has highlighted a divide among users about whether the update will get more people using Bumble - or if it makes it "just like any other dating app".
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
“I thought, it would be amazing if I could divide this project by the process of the kitchen.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Before we divide the spoils, entrepreneurs and investors have to decide which problems are worth solving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
When two partners divide up the profits of a business between them they assign a notional book value to the stock in hand.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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How the winning and losing candidates—and those candidates’ supporters—treat each other over the next few months will help determine whether those divides heal in time for November.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Instead, Biden said he wanted to devote his time to speaking about addiction and recovery, which he described as a cause capable of bridging America's political divides.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Investors generally prefer looking at forward price-to-earnings ratio for stocks, which divides share price by consensus 12-month earnings-per-share estimates.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Ever since Disney introduced Lightning Lanes in 2021, debate has raged over whether letting people pay for shorter waits is savvy crowd management or nickel-and-diming that divides people by income.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
It’s got steps up the middle, which divides it into two sections, one for home, one for away.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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Chelsea supporters appeared divided, with others responding by chanting his name.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
In eusocial colonies, reproduction is divided between queens and workers, creating highly cooperative societies with specialized roles.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Tyler, whose real name was Gaynor Hopkins, was born and raised in a traditional coal mining village northwest of Swansea, and divided her time between south Wales and Portugal in recent years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Union households support the measure, while non-union families are evenly divided about it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
This is the easiest way to write beats that are evenly divided into three rather than two.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Their contrasting skulls and jaws suggest that closely related predators were already dividing up available food resources by developing different feeding strategies.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
A day after being forced out, Fedorov on Thursday held an extraordinary press conference at which he accused the commander of dividing the country.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
At his own stampede speech, Hogan called separatism "a poison" dividing families across the province.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The dividing line between the East and the West during the Cold War would end up running straight through Germany.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The inventors of calculus, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, created the most powerful mathematical method ever by dividing by zero and adding an infinite number of zeros together.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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