subdivide
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And so even in the legislature, we subdivide power again between Senate and house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Or, he could apply to subdivide the lots into multiple smaller ownerships.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025
Congress doesn’t have to remake the wheel if it wishes to subdivide its white-collar statutes; it can borrow from state codes.
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
Each seven-year cycle can be divided into two cycles of three and a half years, which are then subdivided into a “favorable” 18-month period and an “unfavorable” 18-month period.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Tens of thousands of people housed in these monuments to pre-revolutionary Cuba, which were subdivided into apartments after Fidel Castro took power in 1959, live on the edge, literally.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
An anonymous sheet by an Austrian designer from about 1515 shows the whole operation compressed into a single image of a finial, upon which are inscribed the subdivided squares that generated it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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
Even these may need to be subdivided further into the various phases of an artist’s development.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
Titanic estates have dotted L.A. over the last century, but most have been whittled down by developers subdividing the lots and selling them as separate properties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025
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
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
The three ended up subdividing the loft LeCompte had shared with Gray with a wall and separate entrances so no one had to move out.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 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
