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Within Samsung Electronics, the deal has deepened divisions between employees in the highly profitable semiconductor business and other divisions such as mobile, display and consumer electronics, where profits have stagnated or declined.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Rather than uniting the Gulf countries against their common opponent, the war has deepened a schism between Saudi Arabia and the Emirates in which the two have taken diverging approaches to Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

Its collaboration has deepened, and that is extraordinary news.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

For the two men the exchange was just the latest in a strange bromance that has deepened in equally beneficial ways as June’s World Cup has drawn closer.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2025

In its intension, so to speak, it has deepened: God is disclosed not as the master and king of his subjects and servants, but as the Father in heaven of his children on earth.

From The Idea of God in Early Religions by Jevons, F. B. (Frank Byron)