subdivide

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Recent Examples of subdivide This is also the reason that Paso Robles is subdivided into 11 American Viticultural Areas or AVAs. Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2025 One of the three items set to come before the Aurora City Council at the Feb. 25 meeting would subdivide the property into three — one for the church and its related buildings, one for the supportive housing project and one for an existing two-unit residential house. R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025 Some parts of the brain subdivided the experience into shorter segments. Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for subdivide
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subdivide
Verb
  • 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
  • Passengers are divided on the appropriateness of removing shoes during flights, citing comfort versus hygiene and safety.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • His schedule became bifurcated between the two lives — early mornings sharpening, late nights cooking.
    Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • But Francis also contradicted himself and split some very specific hairs regarding LGBTQ+ rights.
    Samantha Riedel, Them., 21 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
  • This process involved analyzing behaviors, segmenting audiences and refining these groups further through testing.
    Sam Nelson, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • Heading into final rotation, the two championship hopefuls were separated by just 0.075.
    Henry Chappell, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
  • After Wednesday’s win in Chicago, only one road win over the Hawks separates the Heat from making the playoffs for the sixth straight season.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 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 29 Apr. 2025.

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