I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cell divides
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White blood cells divide rapidly.
be divided into chapters
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The book is divided into ten chapters.
cut/divide etc sth into pieces
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She cut the cake into four equal pieces.
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Chop the potato into bite-sized pieces.
digital divide
divide a nation (= make people in a nation disagree )
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The war has divided the nation.
divide one number by another
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You can’t divide a prime number by any other number, except 1.
divided along...lines
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The community remains divided along religious lines .
divided highway
divided loyalties (= when you feel that you should be loyal to two people, groups etc )
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She felt divided loyalties, having friends on both sides of the dispute.
divide/split sth in half
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Divide the dough in half.
divide/split sth into categories
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The exhibition of 360 paintings is divided into three categories.
divide/split/share sth fifty-fifty
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The companies split the profits fifty-fifty.
dividing line
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What’s the dividing line between normal drinking and addiction?
dividing line
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The dividing line between luxuries and necessities is constantly changing.
opinion is divided as to/on/over sth (= people have different opinions about it )
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Opinion was divided as to whether the program will work.
stand united/divided (= agree or disagree completely )
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He urged the whole community to stand united and to reject terrorism.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deeply
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It has deeply divided mid-green leaves that flare to wild, improbable scarlet.
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Still, the report and public hearing made plain that the subcommittee had been deeply divided over key points.
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Cancer experts are deeply divided amongst themselves about the percentage of cancers that can be attributed to environmental factors.
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The city had strong Southern leanings and politically was deeply divided .
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The justices are deeply divided on such issues as abortion, affirmative action and the separation of church and state.
equally
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Fianna Fáil appeared to be equally divided on the issue.
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Top with croissant cubes, dividing equally .
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The residue of the estate was divided equally among all Mr Farrington's first cousins living at his death.
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It essentially mediated between the sharply contrasting views of the other eight justices, who divided equally on the issue of quotas.
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If twins are borne, both with a disability, then the sum insured will be divided equally between them.
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Pour custard over chocolate and croissants, dividing equally .
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Fees and expenses would be divided equally between them.
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Yet scarce athletic moneys must be equally divided between male and female teams.
evenly
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Staff seemed evenly divided - we received some smiles but also caught some rather unsavoury glances.
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And 86 to 90 percent comes from vehicle exhaust, evenly divided between diesel and gasoline engines.
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The large crowd at the meeting was nearly evenly divided between those supporting the ban and those against.
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Yocum may have been helped by the fact that the chamber audience was more evenly divided in allegiance.
over
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Groups were continually dividing over minor points of doctrine.
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Who should we not embrace them as a general strategy for legislation whenever the community is divided over some issue of principle?
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Above all, they were divided over whether the emphasis should be placed upon political or economic issues.
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The purity movement was itself divided over the new proposals.
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Parents are divided over the decision to separate the children.
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The Government is also understood to be divided over whether the increase in base rates will provoke a recession.
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In the early years of the nineteenth century methodists had divided over the matter of their relationship with the Established Church.
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Read in studio People in a village that hasn't got its own graveyard are divided over plans to create one.
sharply
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Opinion about Ken Livingstone divided sharply .
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He is both sharply divided from his party opponents and emotionally involved in electoral contests.
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Its sharply divided report now is scheduled to be released next month.
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Beyond the financial problems, there is new concern that historically tolerant California is developing a culture sharply divided along racial lines.
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Northern opinion was sharply divided , with party lines much in evidence.
■ NOUN
city
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This divides the city into quarters and obstructs cross-core traffic.
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One such was divided Berlin, the city where so much of the Cold War drama had taken place.
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Chicago was the same divided city the day he left as it had been before he arrived.
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How the money will be divided among cities and states has not been determined, according to an administration official.
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In the early days after the war, Berlin was not the closed, divided city it became later.
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The campaign was bitter, dividing the city of 68, 000.
class
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Amongst themselves the Zuwaya did not divide into classes , nor did any inter-tribal division mark a class division.
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Make as many photocopies as you need and divide the class into four rocket teams.
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I divided my classes into rows and asked each row to pick a group leader.
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On the basis of these laboratory studies, meteorites have been divided into three main classes .
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It successfully produces delinquents, creating a criminal section of the population and thereby dividing the subordinate classes into mutually antagonistic fractions.
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Any apparent fragmentation is a ruling class stratagem designed to divide exploited classes which develop revolutionary or reformist consciousness.
community
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He had a strong commitment to building bridges between the divided community here.
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He knew, as we all know, that educating children in sectarian schools divides the community .
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Roads can not only ruin the countryside, but also divide communities .
country
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They are divided by country , and the schools are hung chronologically.
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Economists can not so easily divide the country into two districts to perform similar tests.
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They would turn the clock back to policies that impoverished and divided our country .
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We probably all were cursing our miserable fate of living in a divided country .
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The book is divided into country reports.
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Both Democrats and Whigs wanted to gloss over sectional differences and cement party loyalties, not divide the country .
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We need to examine the issues that bind and divide this country .
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Freezing minority voters into permanent isolated camps accelerates the political polarization that now divides the country .
issue
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But the thorny issues that divided the main trading powers at Seattle appear to be largely unresolved.
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But the painful stalemate wrought on this issue by divided government in Washington compelled a new approach.
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Bismarck used two issues to divide the liberals and unite his new majority: protectionism and the suppression of the Social Democrats.
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In their terms they debated the very issues that divided Calvinists from Arminians.
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We need to examine the issues that bind and divide this country.
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Self-interest now propels both Clinton and Republican leaders in Congress to reach accommodation on issues that long have divided them.
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Opinion on the nuclear issue is divided and other arguments are involved too, for example economic considerations.
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Transaction security issues can be divided into two types: data and message security.
nation
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Consequently, developments in the international financial structure have had a decisive influence on how wealth-creating activities are divided among nations .
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It would seem cruel to watch clean rivers flowing sweetly through a heartless and divided nation .
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This is a divided nation , where the fault-lines are fresh, sharp and deep.
number
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At the other extreme were open villages where the land was divided among a large number of freeholders and smallholders.
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She can not add or subtract or multiply or divide even the simplest numbers in her head.
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The daily rate is the appropriate weekly rate divided by the number of qualifying days in the week. 5.
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It is computed as the sum of the values divided by the number of observations.
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Each time the cells divide , the number of cells doubles.
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So, divide the number of degrees of turn by three to get the time.
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Next, divide the weight number by the height number.
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The debris scores were totalled and divided by the number of surfaces scored to obtain the debris index.
opinion
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Writing Many of the things people say and write can be divided into facts and opinions .
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Here is where the most important split of all divides expert opinion .
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She has repudiated policies associated with previous Conservative leaders and has divided public opinion .
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We were all divided in opinion as to what was coming.
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There is hardly a figure in public life who so divides public opinion as Woodhead.
party
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That is wholly laudable, and I suspect that it does not divide the parties .
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It is closely divided between the parties , and there are divisions among Republicans.
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The Council, said the author, should not be reported as if it was divided along party lines.
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He is both sharply divided from his party opponents and emotionally involved in electoral contests.
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But at other times it may be very difficult to single out policy issues that divide the parties .
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The upshot for the Republicans is that they remain a divided party .
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Seats are divided between the parties according to the proportion of the vote they win in the constituency.
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Communists catapulted from 45 to 157 seats in the 450-seat Duma to dominate a fractious chamber divided by eight political parties .
section
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The asset section of the balance sheet is divided into two major sections: current assets and fixed assets.
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The presentation was divided into three sections , the first being instrumental.
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Queue up trellises rather than bushes to divide a garden into sections or to provide privacy.
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Now she cut the skin, peeled it back carefully, divided the orange into sections .
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Like all Orthodox churches it was divided into three sections .
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The results are divided into two main sections .
type
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He concluded that legal processes could be divided into two contrasting types .
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Most calling plans can be divided into three types .
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The graves are divided into several types .
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These are divided into two types .
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The crust can be divided into two types , oceanic and continental.
world
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I didn't mean to divide the world into black and white, you know.
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But one of two new rulings deemed experimental for one season, is dividing the rugby world .
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In terms of ancient civilisations food experts tend to divide the world into three parts.
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I simply stared into her eyes through the layer of toughened glass which divided her world from mine.
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Sadly the evidence of such attempts to divide the world in this matter are all to clear to see.
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Botanists will divide the world of plants into hundreds of thousands of different species.
■ VERB
remain
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The two sides remained divided on the issue of nuclear weapons.
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The upshot for the Republicans is that they remain a divided party.
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Problems and Method Critical opinion remains divided over Paul Nizan.
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None the less, judicial opinion about the use of cameras still remained divided after the Scopes trial.
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And both contributors and the general public remain suspicious and divided about public financing of presidential and congressional elections.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
divide/split sth down the middle
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The vote was split right down the middle .
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We split you down the middle .
the great divide
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A handful of people fell between the cracks of the Great Divide.
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She is still on the human side of the Great Divide.
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The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful.
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These guys are only Caspers; the real monsters are still breathing on this side of the great divide.
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Thus was born the Great Divide.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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36 divided by 2 is 18.
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A busy highway divides one half of the town from the other.
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Cancer cells divide rapidly.
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He said that dividing up the company would make the units more profitable.
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If you divide twenty by four, you get five.
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It is easier to divide by 10 than by 12.
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Only a thin partition divides the room.
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Some of the big old houses have been divided into apartments.
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The Berlin Wall used to divide East and West Berlin.
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The chapel is divided from the rest of the church by a screen.
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The choice of a new rabbi has divided the entire congregation.
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The election campaign was bitter, dividing the city.
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The issue dividing the Church was the question of women priests.
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We divided the pizza into three and had a slice each.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Between 2000 and 2015, well-educated, well-off Californians had more to bring them together than to divide them.
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Clerical wives were divided into those who wore hats on principle and those who, on principle, did not.
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Fairly soon, the group will be divided up into pairs for free sparring.
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Mattress matters Conventional mattresses are divided into interior-sprung and foam models.
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So it divided some of the spoils that resulted from the decision.
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The school case presents a church-state dispute, the kind that has closely divided the justices for more than two decades.
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The unfertilised egg cell began to divide to produce embryos that sometimes developed well.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cultural
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Perhaps the cultural divide was emphasized by being lovers and she quickly found she had nothing to say to him.
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In the space of a few moments one crossed a cultural divide now generations deep.
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At the edges are the two sharp tails of the cultural and social divide .
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Placements provide a simple yet powerful mechanism for developing understanding and stimulating change through addressing the heart of the cultural divide .
great
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This great divide can not be bridged by turning the clock back.
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There is a great divide between ambiguity and vagueness.
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These guys are only Caspers; the real monsters are still breathing on this side of the great divide .
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The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful.
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By 2015, two populations, composed of very different ethnic groups, faced each other as adversaries across a great divide .
political
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The paramilitary organisations, on either side of the political divide , remain active and hard to penetrate.
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Because both sides of the political divide are benefiting from the traffic, the issue is brushed under the carpet.
racial
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The offspring of such a union are never quite accepted - on either side of the racial divide .
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Some would call it a racial divide .
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Similarly, the racial divide may be changing in the suburbs.
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From his side of the racial divide , the ordeal of mobilization proved simply redundant.
social
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The port had two sharply contrasting social divides , on either side of the harbour.
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One legitimate fear is that more religious schools will deepen social divides .
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This is now the essential social divide .
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More than 1000 men and women were interviewed across all age, social and regional divides .
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At the edges are the two sharp tails of the cultural and social divide .
■ VERB
bridge
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Thankfully, efforts are already under way to bridge the digital divide .
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There are a couple of fudge options at hand, but neither entirely bridges the divide .
cross
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The Support Force crossed the great divide and for that the profession ought to be grateful.
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It took an almost superhuman intuition to know when it was right and proper to cross the divide .
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In the space of a few moments one crossed a cultural divide now generations deep.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Recently the divide between the two sides has widened.
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The Continental Divide runs along the length of the Rocky Mountains.
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The racial divide between the city and its suburbs is deepening.
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There is still a great economic and political divide between the east and the west of the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From his side of the racial divide , the ordeal of mobilization proved simply redundant.
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Meanwhile, the divide between rich and poor has never been greater.
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On a brighter note, the survey indicates that the North-South divide is continuing to narrow.
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The concept of a north-south divide was always too simplistic and sweeping.
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The offspring of such a union are never quite accepted - on either side of the racial divide .
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There are a couple of fudge options at hand, but neither entirely bridges the divide .
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There is no hard-and-fast divide between water-breathing and air-breathing animals.