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Recent Examples of cleaved
The job cuts have been anticipated for weeks, particularly because NBC News Group, an umbrella division that encompassed both the aforementioned cable networks as well as businesses associated with NBC News, is being cleaved in two, and revenue from cable will now go to feed operations at Versant.
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
The Israeli military has now begun its retreat out of Gaza City, and vacated the Netzarim Corridor, which had cleaved Gaza in two, between north and south.
—Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
The first thing visitors approaching Quincy, Washington see is dry rolling hills, cleaved by the Columbia River.
—Monica Nickelsburg, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025
The mudslide cleaved through Dharali village, burying some houses.
—Reuters, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
Brian Steinberg, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
The Israeli military has now begun its retreat out of Gaza City, and vacated the Netzarim Corridor, which had cleaved Gaza in two, between north and south.
—Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
The first thing visitors approaching Quincy, Washington see is dry rolling hills, cleaved by the Columbia River.
—Monica Nickelsburg, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025
The mudslide cleaved through Dharali village, burying some houses.
—Reuters, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cleaved
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Participants adhered well, spending 73 percent of the study in ketosis.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Nurseries and a golf course clung to other parts of the city.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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In 10 other cases, according to the review, people resisted arrest, some fleeing on foot, while in one instance, an agent briefly clung to the side of a moving car.—
Richard Ruelas,
AZCentral.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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But Larry, a true cynic, was stuck in a different time, gagged and bound by a tireless insistence on creating art that subverted and satirized those same good old-fashioned family values.—
Michael Cuby,
Them.,
24 Oct. 2025
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There was one particular pass that stuck in the mind.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Cleaved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleaved. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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