subdivide

Example Sentences

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Or, he could apply to subdivide the lots into multiple smaller ownerships.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2025

Congress doesn’t have to remake the wheel if it wishes to subdivide its white-collar statutes; it can borrow from state codes.

From Slate • Oct. 16, 2023

“That male lineage unifies the tomb, whereas female ancestors subdivide the community.”

From Science Magazine • Oct. 4, 2023

Groups with more complex skeletons may occupy smaller niches and are less able to subdivide those niche spaces in order to produce new species.

From Science Daily • Sep. 25, 2023

He understood a lot about how to speculate for land, graze it, subdivide it, make it pay dividends.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols