partition

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

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

West Bengal's history of migration dates back to the partition of British India in 1947.

From Barron's ● May 29, 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

The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

Behind a sliding glass partition sat a young woman in a modern nurse’s uniform, not a white one, but a light blue pantsuit with white trim.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

On 1 April 1937, the first of several imperial partitions was enacted and Aden was separated from India.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025

They erected partitions of wood, cardboard and cloth, built shacks within rooms and cooked on paraffin stoves.

From New York Times ● May 6, 2024

Nimbly he leaped to the top of the partitions, caught a whiff of pure peanut butter, and took off across the top edges of the maze.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary

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

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 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

The fall of El-Fasher gave paramilitaries control over all five state capitals in Darfur, raising fears that Sudan would effectively be partitioned along an east-west axis.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025

“Sudan is now de facto partitioned into two competing halves,” said Alan Boswell, a Sudan analyst with the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

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

And Starbucks Korea warned this month that a minority of people are going further than just laptops, such as bringing in desktop monitors, printers, partitioning off desks or leaving tables unattended for long periods.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

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