halved

past tense of halve

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for halved
Verb
  • The experts split into teams representing the U.S. and China, and each side was armed with the weapons that its country is thought to possess.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • If their parents died, the sisters would split their inheritance.
    Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • Sometimes the internal organs are inspected in situ, but more typically they are removed, washed down, and dissected on a water table.
    Samuel Ashworth, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Each release became an event; her every move was dissected by social media.
    Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Data held in qubits is affected by data held in other qubits, even when physically separated.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Nellie, who was separated from her husband, lived alone in a house not far from Clinton.
    Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • In November, two fiber-optic Baltic Sea cables were severed.
    Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Iran’s land bridge to Hezbollah has been severed by the fall of Syria’s Assad regime.
    Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Halved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halved. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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