subdivide
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Before construction begins, everyone’s expectations should be clearly documented, especially if it does turn out — given what you say in your letter — that you are not allowed to subdivide this land.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
And so even in the legislature, we subdivide power again between Senate and house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Unlike state criminal codes, the federal criminal code does not “grade” or subdivide most of its white-collar offenses.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023
“That male lineage unifies the tomb, whereas female ancestors subdivide the community.”
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023
But she was probably being modest, because if you looked harder at Weisberg’s life you could probably subdivide her experiences into fifteen or twenty worlds.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
It starts broad with three domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya, then subdivides into kingdoms, continuing to narrow itself down all the way to species.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022
Yet another, June Living, subdivides homes and individual apartments into single-room rentals.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 13, 2018
Anchored by an instantly likable teen, "Becoming Us" uses a screen that often subdivides into video blogs, FaceTime chats and texts to make its preference for selfie over soapbox instantly clear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2015
During the fourth and fifth weeks, the anterior neural tube dilates and subdivides to form vesicles that will become the brain structures.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The central nucleus becomes drawn out and subdivides into two, this division being followed by a corresponding segmentation of the yolk.
From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Sir John Lubbock
If the property cannot be subdivided, his house would increase the value of your overall property, but ownership would still remain with the family trust.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Hong Kong government has given owners who register under the new system until 2030 to renovate their subdivided flats, but some landlords have already issued eviction notices to their tenants.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
It also features five precision-calibrated plates and degree divisions "so fine they are subdivided down to a third of a degree".
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
It is covered in a grid of regular box-like shapes, each subdivided into smaller, repeating units.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026
It is the flight from us that sent them sprawling into the subdivided woods.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Find out why subdividing the land is not allowed.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
About 340 million years ago, leaves sported veins that branched like a tree, with a main “trunk” subdividing into multiple branches.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
He told Palm Beach town officials he couldn’t afford the $3 million annual upkeep, and proposed subdividing the property and building mansions.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
Peter Gleick, author of more than a dozen books on water, orchestrates a voyage through the history of this precious and finite commodity, subdividing a rich timeline into three eras.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
Again we have followed the ancients in subdividing lyric poetry into elegy, pastoral, ode, satire, idyll.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
