quartered

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Following World War I, fantastic “art” was largely identified with Surrealism, while popular fantasy was mostly quartered within the new mass-market ghettos of pulps, comics, film marketing and paperback books.

From The Wall Street Journal

The mayor of the occupied city of Melitopol said several explosions shook the city Monday, damaging a building where Russian security forces have been quartered.

From Seattle Times

“Many probably made bricks, but we just don't know. They belonged to Daniel French and were surely quartered there to work on the new church.”

From Washington Post

One day, the small crew quartered in the title space station, which is owned by a corporation, notices a giant, toxic brown cloud spreading over Earth below them.

From New York Times

They quartered it, sawing through bone, then sliced meat from the legs, rump, and the animal’s huge hump.

From Seattle Times