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noun 1A boundary between two contrasting groups, cultures, etc. that is regarded as very difficult to ignore or overcome. the great divide between workers and management Example sentencesExamples - In Australia, it often seems there is a great divide between politics and music and arguably, one of the only successful bands to have truly bridged this gap would be Midnight Oil.
- More than disconcerting, this is a bit threatening to those who have crossed the great divide between youth and middle age.
- There's been a lot of talk in the last years about the impact of globalization and technology, and the great divide, digitally, in the world.
- It has emerged from the polls in this election campaign that there is a great divide between the way that regular daily newspaper readers see the world and the way that the rest of the country does.
- There is no middle class, but a great divide between rich and poor.
- The deal in the marketplace connects the traders across great divides.
- I think we are already witnessing a great divide when it comes to informational access.
- This issue reflects not mere differences of opinion within our party but a great divide.
- There was just a great divide between what you did on a Saturday or during festivals and what one did at school or elsewhere.
- Instead, they choose play upon our differences, to make those differences more pronounced and to make a great divide even wider.
- I think if we are going to be really transparent with one another, we are hurting as a people because it speaks to the great divide that is in this country.
- She admitted there was a great divide in the mindset and values of the two places, saying both sides needed to talk sincerely to resolve their differences.
- In its over-enthusiasm to promote an expensive technology at the cost of the poor, what has been overlooked is that biotechnology has the potential to further the great divide between the haves and have-nots.
- It would also offend against the requirements of social justice because it would accentuate a great divide between the lucky insiders who have protected jobs and the unlucky outsiders who are unemployed.
- There may have been a chasm between the haves and have-nots, but politics was driven by ideology rather than the opinion polls, and you knew where you stood on the great divide.
- AFTER BRIDGING the great divide, it is setting its sights on closing distances between languages.
- In a society where we currently have great divides on cultural issues, its a bit hard to justify science as a cultural imperative.
- Half a century later, it is still one of the great divides of British history.
- The pattern of support remains consistent, even allowing for distinctions along the great divide of politics.
- There were alliances between the camps and of course bitter struggles within each of them, while the flows of trade and of cultural influence across the supposed great divide never ceased.
- 1.1 The boundary between life and death.
she is still on the human side of the great divide Example sentencesExamples - Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
- Harry was in his home when he gathered himself up to cross the great divide. He was a very dear friend of mine. And I will miss him so.
- He was among the last of those old pioneers to cross the great divide. He died in Ontario on May 9, 1946, at the age of 81.
proper noun another name for Continental Divide or Great Dividing Range
noun 1A distinction regarded as significant and very difficult to ignore or overcome. the great divide between workers and management Example sentencesExamples - In Australia, it often seems there is a great divide between politics and music and arguably, one of the only successful bands to have truly bridged this gap would be Midnight Oil.
- It has emerged from the polls in this election campaign that there is a great divide between the way that regular daily newspaper readers see the world and the way that the rest of the country does.
- There may have been a chasm between the haves and have-nots, but politics was driven by ideology rather than the opinion polls, and you knew where you stood on the great divide.
- The pattern of support remains consistent, even allowing for distinctions along the great divide of politics.
- AFTER BRIDGING the great divide, it is setting its sights on closing distances between languages.
- Half a century later, it is still one of the great divides of British history.
- There is no middle class, but a great divide between rich and poor.
- It would also offend against the requirements of social justice because it would accentuate a great divide between the lucky insiders who have protected jobs and the unlucky outsiders who are unemployed.
- There's been a lot of talk in the last years about the impact of globalization and technology, and the great divide, digitally, in the world.
- In a society where we currently have great divides on cultural issues, its a bit hard to justify science as a cultural imperative.
- I think we are already witnessing a great divide when it comes to informational access.
- The deal in the marketplace connects the traders across great divides.
- I think if we are going to be really transparent with one another, we are hurting as a people because it speaks to the great divide that is in this country.
- She admitted there was a great divide in the mindset and values of the two places, saying both sides needed to talk sincerely to resolve their differences.
- There was just a great divide between what you did on a Saturday or during festivals and what one did at school or elsewhere.
- This issue reflects not mere differences of opinion within our party but a great divide.
- There were alliances between the camps and of course bitter struggles within each of them, while the flows of trade and of cultural influence across the supposed great divide never ceased.
- In its over-enthusiasm to promote an expensive technology at the cost of the poor, what has been overlooked is that biotechnology has the potential to further the great divide between the haves and have-nots.
- More than disconcerting, this is a bit threatening to those who have crossed the great divide between youth and middle age.
- Instead, they choose play upon our differences, to make those differences more pronounced and to make a great divide even wider.
- 1.1 The boundary between life and death.
she is still on the human side of the great divide Example sentencesExamples - Harry was in his home when he gathered himself up to cross the great divide. He was a very dear friend of mine. And I will miss him so.
- He was among the last of those old pioneers to cross the great divide. He died in Ontario on May 9, 1946, at the age of 81.
- Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
proper noun another name for Continental Divide or Great Dividing Range
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