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Recent Examples of halve
And if the economy improves, my father’s bonus (from work) won’t be halved.
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Reuters, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Debenhams, once a national department store chain, is now an online-only business, while the number of House of Fraser stores has nearly halved since retailer Mike Ashley took over the franchise.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 9 Jan. 2025
The figure nearly halved in Los Angeles County over the same period.
—Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
Notably, migration to Texas, Florida and Georgia was halved or more, compared with the previous year, highlighting a significant slowdown in these traditionally high-growth states.
—Mike Winters, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2025
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Reuters, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Debenhams, once a national department store chain, is now an online-only business, while the number of House of Fraser stores has nearly halved since retailer Mike Ashley took over the franchise.
—Samantha Conti, WWD, 9 Jan. 2025
The figure nearly halved in Los Angeles County over the same period.
—Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025
Notably, migration to Texas, Florida and Georgia was halved or more, compared with the previous year, highlighting a significant slowdown in these traditionally high-growth states.
—Mike Winters, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halve
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Her husband walked toward her along the village street, where military vehicles are visible outside houses where soldiers are quartered.—
Oksana Parafeniuk,
New York Times,
13 Dec. 2024
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Podcast: The Case for Ditching Your Treestand and Hunting from the Ground The buck was quartering away, and Pfeiffer had to turn slightly to get a shot angle.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
26 Dec. 2024
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An additional 10 percent of those sales, plus the sales of books that are not earmarked for a specific store, gets split up and distributed to every store on Bookshop's platform.—
Boone Ashworth,
WIRED,
28 Jan. 2025
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Wooden fences sagged and split, their paint faded and peeling.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2025
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The galleries are categorized according to three themes — religion, kingship, and society — and divided into historical eras: Predynastic, the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, the Late Kingdom, Ptolemaic (Greek) Egypt, and the Roman period.—
Kate McMahon,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Jan. 2025
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Astrology divides the zodiac into elemental groups: Earth: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn Fire: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius Air: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius Water: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces Each element reflects a distinct set of traits and tendencies.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
24 Jan. 2025
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The canal bisects Panama, running 51 miles end to end.—
Alma Solís,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025
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Many of his mixed media works are busy, bisected, and richly colored.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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Travel companies can segment their customers into different groups: leisure or business, luxury or budget, family or solo traveler.—
Angus McDonald,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Or, like Swarovski is doing by segmenting its collection into identifiable tiers, which the brand calls its ‘complications,’ targeting different product-price profiles.—
Stéphane JG Girod,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
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The exes, who had their divorce bifurcated, were declared legally single in 2019.—
Elizabeth Rosner,
People.com,
31 Dec. 2024
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But Stiller and producer and star Adam Scott recognized the potential in newcomer Dan Erickson’s surreal script: Employees volunteer to undergo an operation, called severance, that bifurcates the consciousness into work life and personal life.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
18 Dec. 2024
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Simultaneously, Gibson dissects their complex life’s experience in extended one-on-one interviews — speaking at length about the irony of their troubles with depression years before their ovarian cancer diagnosis in 2021.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2025
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The filing dissects Geoff’s declarations to an Argentine prosecutor in the days following the singer’s death, pulling out the numerous insistences where the pop star’s father claims that Liam was in Nores’ care.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Halve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halve. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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