How to Use divide and conquer in a Sentence

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• The simplest way to parent these ages is to divide and conquer.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• Now, the couple - who have an 8-month-old son named Vern, as well as three dogs and a cat - often divide and conquer the business.
  — Sydney Page, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• And then a kid’s activity starts, for which my wife and I divide and conquer.
  — New York Times, 11 Dec. 2020
• And then Kate had a hand in that, and obviously Sandra was planting the seed with you to try to divide and conquer.
  — EW.com, 8 Mar. 2024
• Use furniture or area rugs to divide and conquer your tiny space.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2022
• Takes Two, Boss battle forces each player to divide and conquer.
  — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2021
• In short, the Academy Awards’ ability to divide and conquer worked for a number of years.
  — Fran Hoepfner, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2024
• Because that’s as old as Roman times, divide and conquer.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 19 July 2023
• Having two leaders divide and conquer the long list of chief executive duties can help cut the risk of burnout at the top.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2022
• Clive Owen hopes to divide and conquer with his dual Emmy submissions this year.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 10 Apr. 2024
• First, families must come together as a unit to divide and conquer tasks at home, so that women’s jobs don’t have to be put in jeopardy, Chatzky said.
  — Michelle Fox, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2020
• The Lumineers are practicing a bit of divide and conquer this fall.
  — Gary Graff, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2020
• Instead, having a team that can divide and conquer is a much better strategy.
  — Biju Chandrasekharan, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• At the end of day, your daughter isn’t responsible for pleasing you or taking care of your mental health, so talk to your partner, and plan how to divide and conquer.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
• Cayla and Derek both memorize their code, divide and conquer on the ship, and get their first puzzle pieces quickly while other team struggle ...
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• The siblings agree to divide and conquer their divorcing parents, so Brie'll take Dad and Jack'll take Mom, who's apparently in love with her art teacher.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 20 July 2022
• Finally, maybe the connection to others is a divide and conquer approach.
  — Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• With the ceremony at 3 p.m., Harrison's Waffle House co-workers made plans to divide and conquer.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 20 June 2021
• That adjustment period saw the couple divide and conquer, with Oakley getting a hold on Otis while Peregrym tended to Mela.
  — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2022
• That might raise eyebrows from competitors about where that close partnership ends—indeed, whether Xpeng and Volkswagen could strategize to divide and conquer.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
• Beyond the tensions among Republicans, Democrats will be ready to pounce on any opportunity to divide and conquer.
  — Charles R. Hunt, The Conversation, 3 Jan. 2023
• Parenting younger children is often about divide and conquer.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 17 May 2022
• This became the Public Enemy line: not to let white outsiders divide and conquer them, as had happened with so many radical black organizations.
  — John Leland, SPIN, 25 Feb. 2023
• For over a decade, Netanyahu pursued a policy of weakening Palestinian moderates and strengthening Hamas in order to divide and conquer and prevent the creation of a Palestinian state.
  — Matthew Weinstein, Baltimore Sun, 19 Apr. 2024
• Your team will need to divide and conquer in order to deal with media inquiries, social chatter, retailers, key accounts, communities, board of directors, investors, and sales reps, among others.
  — Chris Goddard, Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2019
• Rather, the Russian president’s strategy appears to be a classic tactic of divide and conquer–the timeless tool of insecure autocrats dealing from a position of weakness.
  — Steven Tian, Fortune, 25 July 2022
• One of the companies has since resumed its efforts to enter the region, using a tried-and-true tactic—divide and conquer—seeking to convince individual Indigenous leaders to sign logging contracts with them.
  — Carolina Schneider Comandulli, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2022
• Without cohesiveness and unity with our allies, autocratic forces will divide and conquer the bickering West.
  — Jamie Dimon, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2023
• Both have leaders who took office with a populism that caught their opponents off guard, upending their countries’ political establishments with culture wars that helped divide and conquer their critics.
  — Gregory Feifer, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2017
• Iraq’s subsequent deterioration was marked by the dissipation of tolerance—a casualty of generations of tyranny and fear, imposed first by rulers, then by external actors, as a tool to divide and conquer.
  — Wisam Al-Hardan, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024