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“The Time Machine” is an alarming extrapolation of human tendencies of bifurcation, in which our progeny, circa 802,701 AD, has subdivided into the feckless Eloi and the troglodytic and cannibalistic Morlocks.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2016

For Mr. Jackman’s show, the strategy has subdivided the audience into haves and haves-less, with the producers charging the most elite levels the highest prices.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2011

Public schools catch the country's youth before it has subdivided, when the percentage of musical talent is actually higher.

From Time Magazine Archive

In our Natica heros, for instance, the common large gray Sea-Snail of our coast, this change takes place when the yolk has subdivided into eight parts.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

Egg of Tardigrade, after the yolk has subdivided.

From On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Lubbock, John, Sir