halve

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Recent Examples of halve On April 19, 2024, Bitcoin had its fourth and latest halving event, which reduced the reward for a mined block. Deena Zaidi, Quartz, 13 Nov. 2024 Its operating income has halved, from $1.2 billion in 2022 to $0.6 billion in 2024. Trefis Team, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024 Since 1970, 37 countries have halved the probability of their citizens dying before age 70 in 31 years or less, including seven of the world’s most populous countries. Gavin Yamey, TIME, 25 Nov. 2024 Its sustainable development fee – or tourist levy – which was as high as US$200 per person a day in 2022, has been halved. Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 22 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for halve 
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Verb
  • Black women were quartered separately, on the second floor of the gatehouse.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Two hundred years ago, San Antonio quartered off its west side for Mexican Americans, who were legally barred from buying property elsewhere.
    Lily Kepner, Austin American-Statesman, 23 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • In Season 2, that vote occurs after each game, and if the majority chooses to quit, the survivors split the pot — everyone gets a little richer and goes home alive.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The couple will split time between Texas and Virginia, undoubtedly looking for one more property to save.
    Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • And the House Democratic caucus has been divided over whether to touch the minimum wage and paid sick leave laws.
    Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
  • As for whether the almond Kringle or raspberry Kringle is better (the company also sells a pecan version online), fans are divided.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Children who have been bisected via a tragic logging accident are also half siblings, but in a different way.
    Lillian Stone, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Indigenous artisans and entrepreneurs readily adapted to the influx of visitors including the Laguna Pueblo, whose land was bisected by the railroad.
    Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • These large partitions are then subdivided into smaller ones, called macros and standard cells.
    Somdeb Majumdar, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Soon after Taylor's death in 1895, his land on both sides of Lake McDonald — predecessor to Lake Austin — was subdivided and sold.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 24 June 2024
Verb
  • An accounting office could segment Wi-Fi users by business versus individual clients, automatically sharing different tax planning resources with each group.
    Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Hauenstein said Delta is looking for new ways to segment its cabins after the carrier — and rivals — spent years breaking coach class into options like premium economy, extra-legroom seats and basic economy.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 20 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • The center of gravity for computing is bifurcating, where, aside from datacenter AI training, performance per watt is the name of the game.
    Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • That edge is somewhat novel in Star Wars’s universe of smugglers, which typically feels bifurcated between scoundrels with a heart of gold and petty criminals who are rarely more than their base nature.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 19 June 2024
Verb
  • Or that Baker Mayfield surgically dissected their defense with four touchdown passes.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • To get robots to perform even relatively simple tasks, such as tying shoelaces, requires the labors of scientists who have dissected every step in the operation; trainers must then employ tedious repetition to program these steps.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024

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“Halve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halve. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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