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Recent Examples of halve
But even in its best year, HBO only produced four or five films; since 2020 that number has been halved.
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
The rate at which new coins are mined drops around the halving events that happen every four years, with the most recent one in April 2024.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Wells Fargo pointed out that profit margins of S & P 500 companies have nearly doubled over the past 15 years, while net debt to earnings have halved during the same time.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
The latest study finds women in particular can nearly halve their risk of major heart problems by adding just under 3.5 minutes of activity throughout the day.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
The rate at which new coins are mined drops around the halving events that happen every four years, with the most recent one in April 2024.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Wells Fargo pointed out that profit margins of S & P 500 companies have nearly doubled over the past 15 years, while net debt to earnings have halved during the same time.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
The latest study finds women in particular can nearly halve their risk of major heart problems by adding just under 3.5 minutes of activity throughout the day.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halve
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Her husband walked toward her along the village street, where military vehicles are visible outside houses where soldiers are quartered.—
Oksana Parafeniuk,
New York Times,
13 Dec. 2024
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Podcast: The Case for Ditching Your Treestand and Hunting from the Ground The buck was quartering away, and Pfeiffer had to turn slightly to get a shot angle.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
26 Dec. 2024
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That amount would be split between border security, such as wall funding and money for Border Patrol agents, and modernizing U.S. defense systems.—
Cami Mondeaux,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
16 Jan. 2025
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The monk/fox combo needs to be split up, let Keon start!—
Jared Weiss,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into roughly three tiers of access.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
13 Jan. 2025
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The number is calculated by dividing births in a year by the average population for the year.—
Krystal Nurse,
USA TODAY,
12 Jan. 2025
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The canal bisects Panama, running 51 miles end to end.—
Alma Solís,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025
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Many of his mixed media works are busy, bisected, and richly colored.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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The glorious few who still worry about the decline of Palm Beach society speculated wildly that Trump was planning to legalize gambling and build a casino, or — the truly frightening possibility — subdivide his acreage and sell houses.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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These large partitions are then subdivided into smaller ones, called macros and standard cells.—
Somdeb Majumdar,
IEEE Spectrum,
21 Nov. 2024
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Travel companies can segment their customers into different groups: leisure or business, luxury or budget, family or solo traveler.—
Angus McDonald,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Or, like Swarovski is doing by segmenting its collection into identifiable tiers, which the brand calls its ‘complications,’ targeting different product-price profiles.—
Stéphane JG Girod,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
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But Stiller and producer and star Adam Scott recognized the potential in newcomer Dan Erickson’s surreal script: Employees volunteer to undergo an operation, called severance, that bifurcates the consciousness into work life and personal life.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
18 Dec. 2024
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This, to me, represents how Tesfaye has had to bifurcate himself in order to produce music and star in and completely rewrite The Idol.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2024
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Visitors to the Science Museum will be able to see the menagerie’s most famous resident: Louis XV’s rhinoceros, given to the king by a French governor based in India and later dissected and taxidermied upon its death.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Jan. 2025
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JPMorgan’s trading desk focused on the monthly core CPI number as the most critical, and dissected how the S & P 500 might move depending on the reading.—
Yun Li,
CNBC,
14 Jan. 2025
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“Halve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halve. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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