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
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
Groups with more complex skeletons may occupy smaller niches and are less able to subdivide those niche spaces in order to produce new species.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 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
A University education has taught him the importance of correct divisions; he divides and subdivides according to the approved scholastic methods.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
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
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
In effect, the society was divided into hereditary chief and commoner classes, with Hawaiian chiefs themselves subdivided into eight hierarchically ranked lineages, each concentrating its marriages within its own lineage.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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
“We went in, and it was like on each floor, every room had cloth partitions, like blankets held from the ceiling, subdividing it into multiple residents’ cubes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2022
The report noted that because the Native American and Alaska Native population is already the smallest, further subdividing it would introduce a substantial variation.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
Again we have followed the ancients in subdividing lyric poetry into elegy, pastoral, ode, satire, idyll.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
