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

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

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

These small segments are partitioned off from one another, which “seals off the fluid and makes a water balloon,” explains Bruce Jayne, a biology professor and animal locomotion researcher at the University of Cincinnati.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2024

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