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divides

  • plural of divide.
  • present tense form of divide (3rd person singular).

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Appeared in the November 12, 2025, print edition as 'December Rate-Cut Decision Divides The Fed'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

The theme of this year's event, which takes place Sept. 18-24, is "Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us."

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2022

“Our world is in big trouble. Divides are growing deeper. Inequalities are growing wider. Challenges are spreading farther,” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday morning as he opened the general debate at the 77th U.N.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2022

The play began with a scene in a classroom where an assignment was written on the board: “Tribalism Divides Communities — Elucidate.”

From New York Times • May 21, 2019

Where the old rail-fence Divides the hollow, there the bee-bird whets His bill, and there the elder hedge is thick.

From Kentucky Poems by Cawein, Madison J.