cleavage

“It created a cleavage with the United States that was really necessary.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026

The structures revealed that the reverse transcriptase bound to the RNA-DNA complex that formed along the "part" of the Cas9 protein associated with DNA cleavage, the splitting of a single strand of the double helix.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024

“Although race is often cited as the central cleavage in America, the single most powerful predictor of voting intention is religion,” the Economist noted.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024

Going after its leaders would risk a major cleavage.

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2023

Ifemelu looked at Ranyinudo’s dress, its thin straps, its pleated neckline that showed no cleavage.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“There are toxic cleavages and an incipient social fragmentation that can easily turn into instability.”

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024

Pop music has always gone hand in hand with strong opinions and heated debates — including the kinds of generational cleavages that inspire finger-wagging lectures.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2021

More recently, cleavages stemming from class, race, religion, gender, and ethnicity, split the country into antagonistic factions.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2020

Opened to great fanfare three years ago, it was considered a symbol of Ethiopia’s booming economy but now appears to be a witness to the deep cleavages in society.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2018

But if the vertical cleavages by which the country was divided were deepened, those of a horizontal character, arising from social and economic privilege, were in this period largely done away.

From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg