redivide

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Unlike natural organic matter, most plastics do not break down into relatively benign substances; they simply divide and redivide into smaller and smaller particles of the same chemical composition.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024

The stem cells would divide and redivide for months on end.

From Scientific American • May 17, 2011

"We don't just redivide the pie, we enlarge it," argues Phil Zacheretti, a senior vice president at industry leader Regal Cinemas, a privately held behemoth with 4,000 screens.

From Time Magazine Archive

He goes on: "They will force a closure on the second reading, go into committee, come out of it again, redivide, subdivide and force us to bring down the estimates."

From Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge by Leacock, Stephen

In other words, the starting point in the development of the frog is a single biological unit; this divides and its products redivide to constitute the many-celled blastula and the double-walled gastrula.

From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Crampton, Henry Edward