as in death
the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities
many religions claim to know what happens after we cross the great divide
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Recent Examples of great divide
There's a great divide for Americans who need dental care with some forced to live with pain and shame while others flash five figure veneers.
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Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024
By hanging her story on a great divide between the state and society, the author also ignores ways in which the two are mutually constituted.
—Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
That marked a great divide, a shift in my understanding of myself as autonomous rather than a sheet in the wind.
—Lucy Corin, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
Saltburn Writer and director Emerald Fennell’s second film is bound to cause great divides in your group chats.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2023
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Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 July 2024
By hanging her story on a great divide between the state and society, the author also ignores ways in which the two are mutually constituted.
—Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
That marked a great divide, a shift in my understanding of myself as autonomous rather than a sheet in the wind.
—Lucy Corin, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024
Saltburn Writer and director Emerald Fennell’s second film is bound to cause great divides in your group chats.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for great divide
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The murders in 2024 included eight killings involving white supremacists and five deaths at the hands of far-right anti-government extremists.—
Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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The coroner’s conclusion of suicide was expected, but a Channel 4 report into the circumstances around his death is yet to report back and questions remain.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
21 Feb. 2025
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Horror films primed on increasingly gory demises have always trafficked in archetypes.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
22 Feb. 2025
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The giddily ludicrous demises, doled out at random, are meant to balance out the darker themes in the film.—
Alissa Wilkinson,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The result is a season that’s ludicrous in plot yet freshly unsettling in its portrayal of how people can become resigned to their fate.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2025
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The far away country was Czechoslovakia and so off Chamberlain flew to meet Hitler in Munich to decide the fate of the Czechoslovaks without them at the table with the big powers.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
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After his passing in 2021, Lambert's daughters moved her to an assisted living facility, and eventually to a memory care wing.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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His passing is more incisive, his ‘pre-orientation’ the best of any Palace player.—
Matt Woosnam,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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New Moon is decidedly the least-beloved Twilight movie due to its slower plot, excessive doom and gloom, and Edward’s absence.—
Lincee Ray,
EW.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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Many of today’s wine industry headlines predict doom and gloom for the year ahead.—
Michelle Williams,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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