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Recent Examples of apart
Adverb
Since 2005, the Savage Stone Quarry has mined a mineral called Baltimore gabbro, which is used for road beds, riprap and airport runways, by blasting apart chunks of rock in a large open pit, situated between Interstate 95 and Route 1.—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2024 But oxygen can arise from other processes: Sunlight could break apart water in the planet’s atmosphere, for example.—Elise Cutts, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
Adjective
Floating Cut System for Uniform Mowing What sets the Sunseeker Elite X7 apart in cutting quality is its innovative Floating Cut System, designed to adapt to your lawn’s contours in real time.—William Jones, USA Today, 9 July 2025 For the three months ended June 30, Boeing handed over 150 airplanes, its best second quarter since 2018, before two crashes of Max planes five months apart grounded the jets and sparked a multiyear crisis at the top U.S. exporter.—Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for apart
While a few outlying voices have called Tehran Israeli propaganda, most critics have seen the show as depicting messiness on both side of the Israel-Iran conflict.
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Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
8 July 2025
Blackouts in the capital, unlike in much of the rest of the country, are largely scheduled, and far shorter than in the outlying and more rural provinces, where outages sometimes span 15 hours or more per day.
Amid the search for leadership, it should be remembered that England entered the World Cup in 2023 without the retired Ellen White and Jill Scott, as well as the injured trio of Williamson, Mead and Kirby.
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Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
5 July 2025
The sellers of the 383-acre estate were Larry Keele, the retired cofounder of Oaktree Capital, one of the world's largest asset management firms, and his wife Leiyan Keele.
The ever-changing face of modern gin has birthed many styles to pique the palate of the gin aficionado—or anyone partial to the odd G&T.
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Camille Berry,
Vogue,
15 July 2025
Depicted as short and animalistic in the comics, the tall, hunky Jackman seemed like an odd fit, but his interpretation of the retractable-clawed superhero is now definitive in mainstream popular culture.
The Bananas play their home games and most of their away games against the Party Animals, similar to the relationship between the Harlem Globetrotters and the Washington Generals.
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Kaycee Sloan,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
There’s often something quite nice about home and away kits that mirror each other, the same design but with the colours reversed.
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