partitioned

Example Sentences

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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

The Kashmir dispute dates back to 1947, when India got independence from British rule and was partitioned to create Pakistan.

From BBC • May 12, 2025

Portions of Y-12 were partitioned off so that the scientists could not cross from one end of its vast floor to the other without stopping repeatedly to show their passes.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik