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divide

[dih-vahyd] / dɪˈvaɪd /






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A divide is growing over AI-assisted preaching in American churches.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Some occur by chance as cancer cells divide.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

His appointment, seen as an attempt to bridge the divide, carries heavy expectations.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

That divide was on full display in a recent internal debate among BCA Research’s top macroeconomic experts.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

When the Yorktown’s computer system tried to divide by zero, 80,000 horsepower instantly became worthless.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Every time a healthy cell divides, its telomeres become a little shorter.

From Science Daily Jul. 1, 2026

There are industry divides over which bill allows more flexibility to comply with new mandates and whether airlines should be required to make potentially costly retrofits of cockpit systems.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

When the national mood wobbles, we turn to the arts, which have the power to free buried desires, soothe souls and cross divides.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

That metric divides an asset’s price by the average of ten years of earnings and adjusted for inflation.

From MarketWatch Jun. 29, 2026

I grew up hearing my father's friends talk about religious divisions in the town, but I thought there must be more that unifies us than divides us.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Covering just under three hectares, it is divided into various plots treated in different ways, so scientists can compare how nutrients affect the growth, soil and diversity of grass.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Bianco said a divided Fed could be Powell’s “nightmare scenario,” because if the Fed committee is divided, he might cast the deciding vote.

From MarketWatch Jul. 25, 2026

Lehigh Acres sprang up more than 70 years ago when wealthy Chicago businessman Lee Ratner and some partners began buying thousands of acres of ranchland and eventually divided it into more than 100,000 residential lots.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Covering about four square kilometers, the enormous stone-walled settlement was divided into separate functional areas.

From Science Daily Jul. 21, 2026

If Chicken was lost, her life would be forever divided by this night.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

A day after being forced out, Fedorov on Thursday held an extraordinary press conference at which he accused the commander of dividing the country.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

When the scientists reduced E2F3 levels in RB-deficient cancer cells, the tumors stopped dividing, could no longer form clusters, and in some cases died completely.

From Science Daily Jul. 4, 2026

The dividing line between the East and the West during the Cold War would end up running straight through Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

“It’s up to us how we use public space,” Wacht said, looking out on a particularly unattractive stretch of roadway that generates so much exhaust and serves as a barrier, dividing two neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 2026

Newton’s and Leibniz’s calculus depends upon dividing by zero—and on numbers that miraculously disappear when you square them.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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