partition

Example Sentences

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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

Computer tablet screens glow inside a row of partitioned booths at this new-style Ethiopian police station.

From BBC

The room was completely open without a partition or a dividing wall in sight and set up like a pie, with each slice of the circle housing something different.

From Literature

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

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