divide
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Stem cells are known for their ability to self-renew, meaning they can repeatedly divide while maintaining their original properties.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
This divide makes the election a "question of life" for Indigenous people, she added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Its individual projections underscore the growing divide between AI winners and the rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
In other words, the materials that crystallized from the Moon's original magma ocean show no significant compositional divide between the near side and far side.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
It usually took half an hour to find all the books, then we would divide them up and go into separate rooms to “do school.”
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Volvo Cars, a Swedish carmaker owned by a Chinese company that has a factory and material sales in the U.S., is no stranger to straddling geopolitical divides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
A patio divides the two halves, providing access to the outdoors and opportunities to bring more light into both wings of the house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
In recent days, Russia has attacked several bridges across the Dnipro river that divides the city, causing traffic gridlock and transport disruption.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
This is where “To Catch a Predator” divides.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
A cinder-block wall divides the warehouse in two.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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My other assets, totaling $6 million, are divided equally.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
Both communions deny that the schism between Catholics and the Orthodox has, in any essential sense, divided Christ’s one body.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The art style divided fans when it was first unveiled, with some saying it looked too polished or plastic-like.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Scientists have reconstructed a remarkably detailed family tree of cells in a developing mouse embryo, tracing their origins back to the moment a fertilized egg first divided into two cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
A regiment was usually divided into three squadrons of ten planes, with a squadron leader and deputy assigned to each.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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She says she called the nonbinding referendum to settle a question dividing the province.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
These cells stop dividing but remain alive, lingering in tissues rather than disappearing.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
For many, there's a fairly clear dividing line as to when you talk about salary, spending habits and debt and that's when you become an official couple.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The difference is now a regulatory dividing line, at least in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
She spread the silk on the ground and began the process of dividing and counting, dividing and counting and setting aside, which she’d done so often as a passionate, curious teenager, and hardly ever since.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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