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Example sentences for: divide

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They play a shell game: Take this part of the Social Security tax and convert it into a mandatory savings contribution; take today's benefit and divide it into two parts; give everybody this new account and that minimum guarantee; take this shell and put it there and bring that shell over here, and--hey presto!
As Devine has no living relations, it makes sense for the impoverished old men to cook up a scheme by which Michael will assume the dead fisherman's identity, and the pair will divide the money between themselves.
This highway creates an artificial divide between the two very different coastlines.
Divorce laws divide property and dictate the financial support of spouses who did little work outside the home.
Now such an agreement would probably provoke open rebellion, divide the House, and deprive the speaker of a working majority.