subdivide

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Recent Examples of subdivide The rights to subdivide Mar-a-Lago have expired, and Trump brags profusely of its costly restoration. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025 The glorious few who still worry about the decline of Palm Beach society speculated wildly that Trump was planning to legalize gambling and build a casino, or — the truly frightening possibility — subdivide his acreage and sell houses. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025 These large partitions are then subdivided into smaller ones, called macros and standard cells. Somdeb Majumdar, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2024 Soon after Taylor's death in 1895, his land on both sides of Lake McDonald — predecessor to Lake Austin — was subdivided and sold. Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 24 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for subdivide
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subdivide
Verb
  • The appeals court divided 2-1 in turning down the government's request to halt Boasberg's directive.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The Trump administration reportedly calculated the tariff by dividing the trade deficit ($7.4 billion) by the value of imports to America ($22.2 billion) and then essentially halving the figure to reach 17%.
    Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Streaming, meanwhile, has bifurcated the nature of the modern-day executive, creating a fundamentally different structure with its own unique rules and incentives that differ from those that apply to executives who work at a traditional studio or network.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Without the long corridor bifurcating the building, more units can have windows on multiple walls, which improves air flow and lets in more natural light.
    Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Women often lose income, take on the bulk of caregiving, and carry the invisible labor of rebuilding a life, while men complain of the long-tail financial consequences of alimony, support payments, and assets split down the middle.
    Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Weeks after rumors spread that Californian experimental hip-hop trio Death Grips had split, the band have now taken to social media to deny these claims.
    Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Meet officials had automatic timing in three spots — the 1,500, 1,600 and mile — but dissecting the two shorter races is always very time-consuming and Dailey was anxiously awaiting the official 1600-meter time.
    Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
  • That’s one to dissect through the offseason.
    Arthur Staple, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • This process involved analyzing behaviors, segmenting audiences and refining these groups further through testing.
    Sam Nelson, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The American Hospital Association has also told its members that until a patch is available, hospitals should make sure the monitor no longer has access to the internet, and is segmented from the rest of the network.
    Kevin Williams, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • In one large, redolent print, a woman in a white coat stands beside a deserted stretch of road, gazing beyond a patch of grass while the shadow of a utility pole bisects her body from head to heels.
    Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • One Russian strike drone was shot down over the Kherson region -- most of which is occupied by Russian forces, with the region bisected by the frontline marked by the Dnieper River -- and one woman was killed by a drone attack on Thursday morning, Prokudin added.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Those who have been separated from their belongings during the shooting will have the opportunity to retrieve them at a later date.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Since our family has been separated, I have been devastated and confused.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Dent corn is fractionated into its various elements (starch, protein/germ, oil and moisture).
    WWD, WWD, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The initial wave fractionated into smaller 25-foot waves, which reverberated across the fjord for over a week.
    Carly Miller, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024

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“Subdivide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subdivide. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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