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Appeared in the October 9, 2025, print edition as 'The Craze Dividing Body Care: Trying to Smell Like a Doughnut'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Dividing the total deaths by the number of cases results in what epidemiologists call a case fatality rate, or CFR, of 52 percent.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2024

Dividing $5 million by the plaintiffs who are entitled to damages comes to less than $250,000 each, but that does not include substantial bankruptcy-related legal and administrative costs, which are paid first.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2024

Dividing themselves into eight groups, this was the first time they had used a drone to determine how high the summit was.

From BBC • Oct. 5, 2023

Dividing the cavern was a new fifteen-meter-wide chasm, spanned only by two rickety stretches of bone flooring.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan