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Recent Examples of halve
On April 19, 2024, Bitcoin had its fourth and latest halving event, which reduced the reward for a mined block.
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Deena Zaidi, Quartz, 13 Nov. 2024
Its operating income has halved, from $1.2 billion in 2022 to $0.6 billion in 2024.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Since 1970, 37 countries have halved the probability of their citizens dying before age 70 in 31 years or less, including seven of the world’s most populous countries.
—Gavin Yamey, TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Its sustainable development fee – or tourist levy – which was as high as US$200 per person a day in 2022, has been halved.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 22 Nov. 2024
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Deena Zaidi, Quartz, 13 Nov. 2024
Its operating income has halved, from $1.2 billion in 2022 to $0.6 billion in 2024.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Since 1970, 37 countries have halved the probability of their citizens dying before age 70 in 31 years or less, including seven of the world’s most populous countries.
—Gavin Yamey, TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Its sustainable development fee – or tourist levy – which was as high as US$200 per person a day in 2022, has been halved.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halve
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Black women were quartered separately, on the second floor of the gatehouse.Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Two hundred years ago, San Antonio quartered off its west side for Mexican Americans, who were legally barred from buying property elsewhere.Lily Kepner, Austin American-Statesman, 23 Sep. 2024
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In Season 2, that vote occurs after each game, and if the majority chooses to quit, the survivors split the pot — everyone gets a little richer and goes home alive.Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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The couple will split time between Texas and Virginia, undoubtedly looking for one more property to save.Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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And the House Democratic caucus has been divided over whether to touch the minimum wage and paid sick leave laws.Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
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And the Crime Stoppers reward could be divided among dozens of tips that the police say were helpful in the investigation.Ben Brachfeld, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Children who have been bisected via a tragic logging accident are also half siblings, but in a different way.Lillian Stone, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Indigenous artisans and entrepreneurs readily adapted to the influx of visitors including the Laguna Pueblo, whose land was bisected by the railroad.Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
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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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Soon after Taylor's death in 1895, his land on both sides of Lake McDonald — predecessor to Lake Austin — was subdivided and sold.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 24 June 2024
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Its technology allows companies to segment their audience based on customer behaviors, preferences and purchase history, and to offer a range of tools for marketing automation.Rhonda Richford, WWD, 18 Dec. 2024
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Fragmenting Large Tasks Task fragmentation, like other productivity methods that rank tasks in order of importance, is a useful approach to segmenting large projects into smaller, more manageable pieces.Allen Kopelman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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The center of gravity for computing is bifurcating, where, aside from datacenter AI training, performance per watt is the name of the game.Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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That edge is somewhat novel in Star Wars’s universe of smugglers, which typically feels bifurcated between scoundrels with a heart of gold and petty criminals who are rarely more than their base nature.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 19 June 2024
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Or that Baker Mayfield surgically dissected their defense with four touchdown passes.Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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To get robots to perform even relatively simple tasks, such as tying shoelaces, requires the labors of scientists who have dissected every step in the operation; trainers must then employ tedious repetition to program these steps.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Halve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halve. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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