How to Use divide and conquer in a Sentence
divide and conquer
idiom-
The simplest way to parent these ages is to divide and conquer.
—Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
-
Now, the couple - who have an 8-month-old son named Vern, as well as three dogs and a cat - often divide and conquer the business.
—Sydney Page, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
-
And then a kid’s activity starts, for which my wife and I divide and conquer.
—New York Times, 11 Dec. 2020
-
And then Kate had a hand in that, and obviously Sandra was planting the seed with you to try to divide and conquer.
—EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
-
Use furniture or area rugs to divide and conquer your tiny space.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
-
Takes Two, Boss battle forces each player to divide and conquer.
—Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2021
-
Because that’s as old as Roman times, divide and conquer.
—Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 19 July 2023
-
Having two leaders divide and conquer the long list of chief executive duties can help cut the risk of burnout at the top.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2022
-
First, families must come together as a unit to divide and conquer tasks at home, so that women’s jobs don’t have to be put in jeopardy, Chatzky said.
—Michelle Fox, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2020
-
The Lumineers are practicing a bit of divide and conquer this fall.
—Gary Graff, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2020
-
Instead, having a team that can divide and conquer is a much better strategy.
—Biju Chandrasekharan, Forbes, 2 June 2021
-
At the end of day, your daughter isn’t responsible for pleasing you or taking care of your mental health, so talk to your partner, and plan how to divide and conquer.
—Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
-
Cayla and Derek both memorize their code, divide and conquer on the ship, and get their first puzzle pieces quickly while other team struggle ...
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2022
-
The siblings agree to divide and conquer their divorcing parents, so Brie'll take Dad and Jack'll take Mom, who's apparently in love with her art teacher.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 20 July 2022
-
Finally, maybe the connection to others is a divide and conquer approach.
—Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
-
With the ceremony at 3 p.m., Harrison's Waffle House co-workers made plans to divide and conquer.
—Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 20 June 2021
-
That adjustment period saw the couple divide and conquer, with Oakley getting a hold on Otis while Peregrym tended to Mela.
—Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2022
-
Beyond the tensions among Republicans, Democrats will be ready to pounce on any opportunity to divide and conquer.
—Charles R. Hunt, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2023
-
Parenting younger children is often about divide and conquer.
—Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2022
-
This became the Public Enemy line: not to let white outsiders divide and conquer them, as had happened with so many radical black organizations.
—John Leland, SPIN, 25 Feb. 2023
-
Your team will need to divide and conquer in order to deal with media inquiries, social chatter, retailers, key accounts, communities, board of directors, investors, and sales reps, among others.
—Chris Goddard, Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2019
-
Rather, the Russian president’s strategy appears to be a classic tactic of divide and conquer–the timeless tool of insecure autocrats dealing from a position of weakness.
—Steven Tian, Fortune, 25 July 2022
-
One of the companies has since resumed its efforts to enter the region, using a tried-and-true tactic—divide and conquer—seeking to convince individual Indigenous leaders to sign logging contracts with them.
—Carolina Schneider Comandulli, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2022
-
Without cohesiveness and unity with our allies, autocratic forces will divide and conquer the bickering West.
—Jamie Dimon, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2023
-
Both have leaders who took office with a populism that caught their opponents off guard, upending their countries’ political establishments with culture wars that helped divide and conquer their critics.
—Gregory Feifer, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2017
-
Iraq’s subsequent deterioration was marked by the dissipation of tolerance—a casualty of generations of tyranny and fear, imposed first by rulers, then by external actors, as a tool to divide and conquer.
—Wisam Al-Hardan, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2021
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'divide and conquer.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated: