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If these costs are not paid when the beneficiaries take ownership, you can file a partition action to sell them.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

Following India's partition in 1947 the state of Punjab was split between India and Pakistan.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Three years ago, he did not know the Punjabi language or what happened during the India and Pakistan partition in 1947 after British rule ended.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

As Mr. Mulla tells us, in the 1920s India was “in many ways the epicenter of the Muslim world,” still under British rule, home to a large portion of Islam’s population before partition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

She turned and led us around a partition to a small ring of booths — all of them empty.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

"At shelters... there are no walls or partitions between people. It's very congested."

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The furniture and partitions were made from plastics and laminates, so they cost far less.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

In small bathrooms, the team has deployed fancy tiles, lots of light and glass partitions instead of shower curtains.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

The BBC has previously documented how two partitions have been constructed in Gaza since the start of the current war.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024

She leads the way up a narrow set of stairs and past a room with curtains hung as partitions.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Northern Ireland has remained part of the United Kingdom since Ireland was partitioned more than a century ago.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

We shouldn’t be grouped and partitioned by race or sex or identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

They are in a building with wooden ceiling beams, in an area that appears to be partitioned off with black curtains, with at least one security agent on the perimeter.

From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026

Instead, the justices together gravitated toward something else entirely: a problem about time, causation, and whether constitutional authority can be temporally partitioned.

From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2026

For sleep she partitioned off a cubicle from her writing room just large enough to hold a bed.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Holtz's study, "Bringing up baby: preliminary exploration of the effect of ontogenetic niche partitioning in dinosaurs versus long-term maternal care in mammals in their respective ecosystems," was published in the Italian Journal of Geosciences.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026

The roof timbers, for example, are now protected with sprinklers and partitioning.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024

In an agreement partitioning the Black Sea Fleet after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia agreed to pay Ukraine to lease a naval base in Sevastopol.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2023

Data collected in Yellowstone before, during, and after wolf reintroduction provides a window into how the species have found a way to warily coexist by partitioning the landscape.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 25, 2023

Aristotle was wrong in his partitioning of male and female contributions into “material” and “message,” but abstractly, he had captured one of the essential truths about the nature of heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee