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Recent Examples of halve
Here is how Cease has fared against current Blue Jays:
His strikeout rate (9.6 per nine innings) to start the year is above his career rate (8.4) and he’s halved last year’s walk rate (3.7 per nine innings) to 1.8.
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Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2025
That two-goal cushion came in handy, too, as Villa halved the deficit with a bullet header from Mbwana Samatta, before being denied by a spectacular Claudio Bravo save as the final whistle approached.
—Thom Harris, New York Times, 17 May 2025
The latest model corrects course by doubling the laser aperture and more than halving the time necessary to get those same collagen-boosting benefits.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 12 May 2025
Under the plan, institutions such as the NIH, NSF, and NASA would see their funding as much as halved, with federal climate and ecological research nearly eliminated.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 11 May 2025
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Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2025
That two-goal cushion came in handy, too, as Villa halved the deficit with a bullet header from Mbwana Samatta, before being denied by a spectacular Claudio Bravo save as the final whistle approached.
—Thom Harris, New York Times, 17 May 2025
The latest model corrects course by doubling the laser aperture and more than halving the time necessary to get those same collagen-boosting benefits.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 12 May 2025
Under the plan, institutions such as the NIH, NSF, and NASA would see their funding as much as halved, with federal climate and ecological research nearly eliminated.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 11 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halve
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The 22nd Amendment capping the president at two terms is as integral to the Constitution as any of the Amendments, from free speech and the right to practice the religion of your choice to trial by jury or the prohibition of quartering troops in private homes.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
1 Apr. 2025
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Before luxury quartered off the community and gentrified the kinship.—
Marcus Thompson II,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
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Thompson said much of Leavy’s oversight will be split among other senior executives.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
28 May 2025
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Long connected off Brooklyn’s Carl Erskine at Forbes Field. 1968 — The American League announced the league will be split into two divisions.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
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Model parallelism divides the neural network itself across hardware.—
Jitender Jain,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Americans were also divided over what their separation means for the country, according to the survey, which has a margin of error of 2.1 percentage points.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
6 June 2025
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The latest buildings, to be developed by Ryan Cos. and located between Cretin Avenue and Mount Curve Boulevard, will be bisected by a new pedestrian promenade that will emerge at an angle from a small plaza to be located near Lunds at Ford Parkway and Cretin Avenue.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
3 June 2025
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On May 20 the lunar disk will be bisected by the terminator, with the left half illuminated by the sun, and the right drenched in shadow, throwing several large craters into relief.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
19 May 2025
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Odd Trousers, for example, were subdivided and labeled Colorful, White, Linen, Gray Flannel, Tan, Checkered, Extra Heavy, and Corduroy.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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Subtypes Of Domain-Specific Models Domain-specific models in general are subdivided into two major subtypes: (a) Domain-only type (b) Hybrid of domain & general purpose A domain-only type assumes that the model can be devised nearly exclusively based on the domain at hand.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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The measurement focuses on users from New Consumer Classification System segments A, B, and C, representing the core demographic driving streaming consumption in urban India.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
28 May 2025
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In the same report, Vizient highlights that a midwestern health system segmented their patients into three groups: loyal, splitter and uncommitted.—
Corey Scurlock,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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That edge is somewhat novel in Star Wars’s universe of smugglers, which typically feels bifurcated between scoundrels with a heart of gold and petty criminals who are rarely more than their base nature.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
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His schedule became bifurcated between the two lives — early mornings sharpening, late nights cooking.—
Ahmed Ali Akbar,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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With a career that spanned 70 years, there are no shortage of facts about Frank Lloyd Wright to dissect.—
Carrie Hojnicki,
Architectural Digest,
21 May 2025
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Not every actor has the confidence to call it and to dissect where the moment had gone wrong.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
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“Halve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halve. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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