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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

The film, whose title means "I will return", tells the story of a romance that survives nearly eight decades, inspired by real-life accounts from families affected by the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

It survived colonial rule, a bloodied partition, the tumult of independence and Delhi's transformation into a sprawling megacity.

From BBC ● May 25, 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

By now, soldiers have found a partition usually used to divide the state box.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

Comprising most of the museum’s 100,000 square feet of exhibition space, it is treated as one great loft, sliced into smaller galleries by nonstructural partitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Others had brought in partitions and more than one computer to mark their office territory.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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

Gerald Black, at his own request, was supervising the mushrooming wooden partitions that were springing up in a bellying circle on the vaulted third floor of Radiation Building 2.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

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

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Just off the yard, this small, dingy room contained 10 partitioned payphone-style phones along three of the walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

The forest was partitioned into different areas and given biblical place names, such as Judea, Bethlehem and Nazareth.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024

The two ramshackle rooms, built from zinc and porous bricks, like the ones on Fifteenth Avenue, overlooked the street, and were part of a row of similarly constructed tenements partitioned by narrow, dark, rat-infested alleyways.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

Sauper also spends time with a group of American missionaries who are partitioning the land in their own way.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 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

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