divide and conquer
idiom
variants
or divide and rule
: to make a group of people disagree and fight with one another so that they will not join together against one
His military strategy is to divide and conquer.
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With such a breadth of work and almost no time to do it, the production design team has to divide and conquer.
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
When faced with these sorts of calls, Horvath and West divide and conquer.
—Helena Gunderson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
There was a divide and conquer where none of us were made to feel as though our jobs were safe, because we were told that our jobs weren’t safe.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
Replacing the structural inequities faced by marginalised and disadvantaged groups, albeit with a divide and conquer approach to prioritising new groups of people, effectively highlighted the unfairness of such subjective markers of success.
—Lauren Coulman, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025
When faced with these sorts of calls, Horvath and West divide and conquer.
—Helena Gunderson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
There was a divide and conquer where none of us were made to feel as though our jobs were safe, because we were told that our jobs weren’t safe.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
Replacing the structural inequities faced by marginalised and disadvantaged groups, albeit with a divide and conquer approach to prioritising new groups of people, effectively highlighted the unfairness of such subjective markers of success.
—Lauren Coulman, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Divide and conquer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divide%20and%20conquer. Accessed 23 Feb. 2025.
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