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Recent Examples of halve
The hotel uses halved roasted Roma tomatoes to prevent the juice from ruining the flavor and color of the creamy white sauce.
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Robin Roenker, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025
Thursday’s move comes after the British government doubled down on its plans to slash welfare costs by billions of pounds, and a day after an official economic growth forecast for the U.K. was halved.
—Jenni Reid,chloe Taylor,sawdah Bhaimiya,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
The coalition of state and local leaders intends to halve emissions by 2030 and achieve net-zero by 2050, while boosting resilience amid climate challenges.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 21 Mar. 2025
The department on Tuesday announced layoffs of more than 1,300 people as part of an effort to halve the agency's staff.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
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Robin Roenker, Southern Living, 29 Mar. 2025
Thursday’s move comes after the British government doubled down on its plans to slash welfare costs by billions of pounds, and a day after an official economic growth forecast for the U.K. was halved.
—Jenni Reid,chloe Taylor,sawdah Bhaimiya,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
The coalition of state and local leaders intends to halve emissions by 2030 and achieve net-zero by 2050, while boosting resilience amid climate challenges.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 21 Mar. 2025
The department on Tuesday announced layoffs of more than 1,300 people as part of an effort to halve the agency's staff.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 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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But Francis also contradicted himself and split some very specific hairs regarding LGBTQ+ rights.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them.,
21 Apr. 2025
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Shortly after their divorce, Hurley announced her engagement to the Australian cricketer Shane Warne, and the couple split in 2013.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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The city is divided along sectarian lines: The south is home mostly to Sunni Muslims, while the northern neighborhoods are mostly Alawite.—
Christina Goldbaum,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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Passengers are divided on the appropriateness of removing shoes during flights, citing comfort versus hygiene and safety.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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The Rhône is divided into two distinct regions, the Northern Rhône and Southern Rhône, which are further subdivided into village appellations which each have their own production regulations.—
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
18 Apr. 2025
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And each genetically distinct type can be further subdivided based on its axon endings.—
Ariel Bleicher,
Quanta Magazine,
16 Apr. 2025
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Another method involves segmenting your savings by time horizon, allocating funds for short-, medium-, and long-term needs.—
True Tamplin,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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This process involved analyzing behaviors, segmenting audiences and refining these groups further through testing.—
Sam Nelson,
Forbes.com,
3 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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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
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Androgyny plays a factor in Martine Rose, while femininity is dissected through an unabashed use of color and volume in all of Christopher John Rogers’s collections.—
Cortne Bonilla,
Vogue,
21 Apr. 2025
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It has been dissected in many an op-ed or BuzzFeed breakdown, received plenty of TikTok love, and, of course, rose to millennial meme fame.—
Sharareh Drury,
People.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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“Halve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halve. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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