halved

past tense of halve

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for halved
Verb
  • Women often lose income, take on the bulk of caregiving, and carry the invisible labor of rebuilding a life, while men complain of the long-tail financial consequences of alimony, support payments, and assets split down the middle.
    Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The use cases split almost equally between personal and business needs, with roughly half spanning both.
    Marc Zao-Sanders, Harvard Business Review, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Sometimes the internal organs are inspected in situ, but more typically they are removed, washed down, and dissected on a water table.
    Samuel Ashworth, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Each release became an event; her every move was dissected by social media.
    Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Data held in qubits is affected by data held in other qubits, even when physically separated.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Nellie, who was separated from her husband, lived alone in a house not far from Clinton.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • In November, two fiber-optic Baltic Sea cables were severed.
    Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Iran’s land bridge to Hezbollah has been severed by the fall of Syria’s Assad regime.
    Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Halved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halved. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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