verb
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to render sectional
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to divide into sections, esp geographically
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In fact, it would have a tendency to sectionalize the party by which the change is made.
From The Facts of Reconstruction by Lynch, John R.
Like the Hearst and Scripps-Howard chains, the Ridder newspapers are not sectionalized.
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It may be granted that Debussy's melodic line is very fluid and elastic, like Wagner's "continuous melody," not definitely sectionalized by balanced phrases or set cadences.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
The variations from the Sonata are an early work; but, although definitely sectionalized and with only one change of tonality, they clearly reveal Beethoven's freedom of conception and his aversion to stereotyped treatment.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
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