partitioned
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Roughly spanning today’s Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine, the Central European theater stood on the grave of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, partitioned between Austria, Prussia and Russia in the late 18th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Northern Ireland has remained part of the United Kingdom since Ireland was partitioned more than a century ago.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 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 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
Each shelf was partitioned off into square sections, and in each section rested a skull.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
