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In short, Pakistan is an aggrieved state that got the short end of the stick when Partition happened.

He joins Donohue in flanking the man as he disappears behind a partition and from camera view.

Inside, piled desks covered in sheets in the hallways partition makeshift rooms for the families.

But of course no one in Moscow has anything to do with the “little green men” trying to partition Ukraine.

He has called the 1947 partition the “biggest blunder in history” and advocates peace with India.

Down there in the office, while I stood behind a partition and nobody saw me—I would hide anywhere to keep out of a quarrel!

It was such a partition as is effected by hacking a living man limb from limb.

The partition planned at Loo was the partition of an ill governed empire which was not a nation.

The partition planned at Loo was therefore the very opposite of the partition of Poland.

One wound the partition would undoubtedly have inflicted, a wound on the Castilian pride.

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On this page you'll find 124 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to partition, such as: barrier, dissolution, segregation, separation, allotment, and apportionment.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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