partition
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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
If he does not, you have the means to file a partition action to force the sale of the home through the courts.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 5, 2026
Now suppose one places a screen on the far side of the partition from the light.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
"At shelters... there are no walls or partitions between people. It's very congested."
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The furniture and partitions were made from plastics and laminates, so they cost far less.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
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
Wine bottles line the walls and create partitions between tables.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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
But migration is not uncommon, especially among members of families who ended up on different sides of the border when India was partitioned and Pakistan was created in 1947.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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 side of the square is partitioned into 72 segments, while the diagonal comes out to more than 101 but fewer than 102 segments.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Are we looking at a vision of growth or the partitioning of community?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
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
The roof timbers, for example, are now protected with sprinklers and partitioning.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024
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
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
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