dividing

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At age 73, your RMD is calculated by dividing your previous year-end IRA balance by an IRS-assigned factor of 26.5.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

If you kept dividing an apple into smaller and smaller pieces, you would eventually reach molecules, then atoms, and later the tiny particles inside atoms such as protons, quarks, and gluons.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

This past week’s two-day summit barely addressed the many issues dividing the two countries.

From Slate • May 16, 2026

The bear was eventually hit with a dart and fell asleep on top of a cinder block wall dividing two properties, its body straddling either side.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

The last two were one shed, really, with a thin dividing wall.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman