riven

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The Southeast Asian nation of some 50 million is riven by civil war and there will be no voting in rebel-held areas.

From Barron's • Dec. 27, 2025

Long before Nancy's arrival, the club was riven with disharmony.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

Small towns were riven between people calling themselves Patriots and British Loyalists.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2025

Indeed, a key reason Powell pushed back so bluntly against expectations of such a cut at the press conference that day was to manage a committee riven by seemingly unbridgeable differences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

It began to drizzle, as if all that flying metal had riven holes in the clouds.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs