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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
subdivide .
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Examples
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Crispin subdivides simplification rescuing servo disappearances
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They are organized by an intricate rotation system that subdivides the units into groups A, B, and C.
Evacuees Set Rules to Create Sense of Normalcy Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011
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(Apparently, this subdivides into substance dualism and property dualism).
September 13th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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An intricate net of supporting veins divides and subdivides their apparent fragility into a lacework of tiny panels, and some chance combination of light and angle has created a mosaic of gleaming gold scattered through the silver.
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For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness: it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances—what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?
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No other genre subdivides itself into so many sub-genres.
MIND MELD: What's Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy? 2008
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The Jewish community subdivides, in general, into three camps.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: No Holds Barred: Modern Orthodoxy Offers Alternatives to Reactionary Judaism 2009
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The Oklahoma ecoregion map was compiled at a scale of 1: 250,000; it revises and subdivides an earlier level III ecoregion map that was originally compiled at a smaller scale (Omernik, 1987; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2005).
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As each successive generation further subdivides already small plots, pressure on the land is intense.
When Population Growth and Resource Availability Collide 2009
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The overall plan for the site subdivides it into 18 scenic sections.
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