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partition

[pahr-tish-uhn, per-] / pɑrˈtɪʃ ən, pər- /




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If these costs are not paid when the beneficiaries take ownership, you can file a partition action to sell them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

And from the peculiar little noise coming through the partition, I realized he was crying.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

"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

The BBC has previously documented how two partitions have been constructed in Gaza since the start of the current war.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024

They erected partitions of wood, cardboard and cloth, built shacks within rooms and cooked on paraffin stoves.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2024

Down the center of the room twelve toilet bowls were arranged in six pairs, back to back, with no partitions.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

Northern Ireland has remained part of the United Kingdom since Ireland was partitioned more than a century ago.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Just off the yard, this small, dingy room contained 10 partitioned payphone-style phones along three of the walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

They are in a building with wooden ceiling beams, in an area that appears to be partitioned off with black curtains, with at least one security agent on the perimeter.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

Instead, the justices together gravitated toward something else entirely: a problem about time, causation, and whether constitutional authority can be temporally partitioned.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2026

The side of the square is partitioned into 72 segments, while the diagonal comes out to more than 101 but fewer than 102 segments.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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

And Starbucks Korea warned this month that a minority of people are going further than just laptops, such as bringing in desktop monitors, printers, partitioning off desks or leaving tables unattended for long periods.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

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




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