cleavage
noun
the act of cleaving or splitting.
cleavages
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pluralof cleavage.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“There are toxic cleavages and an incipient social fragmentation that can easily turn into instability.”
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024
Second, there's the depolarization variety , which seeks to dismantle the cleavages that result from an oversimplified politics of "us versus them," and actively seeks to create social and political action amenable to pluralist democracy.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022
Pop music has always gone hand in hand with strong opinions and heated debates — including the kinds of generational cleavages that inspire finger-wagging lectures.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2021
It accelerated with the Vietnam War, which Peters saw as creating class cleavages between those who fought and those who didn’t.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2017
Large masses with a coarse or fine granular structure are of common occurrence; the fractured surfaces of such masses present a spangled appearance owing to the numerous bright cleavages.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various
