partition

The film, whose title means "I will return", tells the story of a romance that survives nearly eight decades, inspired by real-life accounts from families affected by the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

It survived colonial rule, a bloodied partition, the tumult of independence and Delhi's transformation into a sprawling megacity.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Three years ago, he did not know the Punjabi language or what happened during the India and Pakistan partition in 1947 after British rule ended.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

He bent down and looked at the shoes underneath the partition.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

"At shelters... there are no walls or partitions between people. It's very congested."

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The furniture and partitions were made from plastics and laminates, so they cost far less.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

On 1 April 1937, the first of several imperial partitions was enacted and Aden was separated from India.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025

In small bathrooms, the team has deployed fancy tiles, lots of light and glass partitions instead of shower curtains.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

You could see the whole floor at once, because here there were no walls, not even those carpet-lined partitions many offices will use.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

In 1880, three-quarters of all Jews in the world lived in Eastern Europe—specifically, in the territory of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, partitioned a century before by Austria, Prussia and Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

The fall of El-Fasher gave paramilitaries control over all five state capitals in Darfur, raising fears that Sudan would effectively be partitioned along an east-west axis.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025

The Kashmir dispute dates back to 1947, when India got independence from British rule and was partitioned to create Pakistan.

From BBC ● May 12, 2025

It was partitioned by a huge black grand piano on which was mounted a large, silver-framed autographed picture of Walt Disney himself.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2025

French premier Clemenceau had failed to achieve all the demands of the French people, who complained that the peace terms were too lenient and that Germany should have been partitioned into smaller, weaker states.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Are we looking at a vision of growth or the partitioning of community?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

Holtz's study, "Bringing up baby: preliminary exploration of the effect of ontogenetic niche partitioning in dinosaurs versus long-term maternal care in mammals in their respective ecosystems," was published in the Italian Journal of Geosciences.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026

The roof timbers, for example, are now protected with sprinklers and partitioning.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024

Sauper also spends time with a group of American missionaries who are partitioning the land in their own way.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

Aristotle was wrong in his partitioning of male and female contributions into “material” and “message,” but abstractly, he had captured one of the essential truths about the nature of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee