cleavage
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“It created a cleavage with the United States that was really necessary.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 1, 2026
“Although race is often cited as the central cleavage in America, the single most powerful predictor of voting intention is religion,” the Economist noted.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
In the livers of mice deficient in the RHBDL4 gene and fed a high-fat and high-cholesterol diet, the activation of SREBP-1c cleavage was suppressed.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2024
This cleavage process is activated by saturated fatty acids and deactivated by polyunsaturated fatty acids, suggesting that RHBDL4's activity is modulated by the type of fatty acid.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2024
Ifemelu looked at Ranyinudo’s dress, its thin straps, its pleated neckline that showed no cleavage.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“There are toxic cleavages and an incipient social fragmentation that can easily turn into instability.”
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024
Second, there's the depolarization variety , which seeks to dismantle the cleavages that result from an oversimplified politics of "us versus them," and actively seeks to create social and political action amenable to pluralist democracy.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022
Pop music has always gone hand in hand with strong opinions and heated debates — including the kinds of generational cleavages that inspire finger-wagging lectures.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2021
Either formulation is a polite way of saying that political cleavages are not so much “I disagree with your views” as “I hate your stupid face.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2018
The straight sloping lines are cleavages, across the beds.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
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