partitioned

Example Sentences

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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

“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

It was partitioned by a huge black grand piano on which was mounted a large, silver-framed autographed picture of Walt Disney himself.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2025

The band’s land is used jointly by the whole group, instead of being partitioned among subgroups or individuals.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond