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The Iraq war was divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community. (source)divisive = caused disagreement and ill-will between people
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One of the most divisive and controversial aspects of the current immigration debate is the proposal for a temporary worker program.† (source)
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It should be self-evident that a faculty that speaks with unanimity on some of the most divisive issues of the day is not fulfilling its duty.† (source)
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It wasn't to unify the rest of the group — in fact, it was divisive. (source)divisive = causing disagreement and often ill-will between people
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The game: a tricky, divisive Westing game.† (source)
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The impact of such contact on human society would be divisive rather than uniting, and would exacerbate rather than mitigate the conflicts between different cultures.† (source)
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The confluence of race and sex was a powerful force in dismantling Reconstruction after the Civil War, sustaining Jim Crow laws for a century and fueling divisive racial politics throughout the twentieth century.† (source)
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They continued celebrating in a festive spirit and singing that the people united would never be defeated—even though each time they sang, it sounded more out of tune because divisiveness and hatred were inexorably growing.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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A Cambodian teenager, kidnapped and sold to a brothel, in the room where she works (Nicholas D. Kristof) One reason the modern abolitionist movement hasn't been more effective is the divisive politics of prostitution.† (source)
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"I told her I would release it to the media" because her lie about a black carjacker was causing deep pain among blacks, and he said he owed it to the town to end the racial divisiveness it had caused.† (source)
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His social development essentially stalled with his breakdown, which came at a time when race in America was a raw, divisive subject.† (source)
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But tonight's freshmen clearly have arrived knowing that the multiculturalist credo-embrace diversity so that every personal characteristic is cause for pride, not shame-has been criticized for institutionalizing divisiveness.† (source)
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Tonight was Brown's traditional response to the divisive national or campus issues: a mandatory "outreach" meeting held in all the freshman dorms.† (source)
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Like Washington and many others, Adams had become increasingly distraught over the rise of political divisiveness, the forming of parties or factions.† (source)
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This soon became the most divisive issue of all.† (source)
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Our team chose to revive This I Believe precisely to counter the divisiveness, the anger, the prejudice, and to raise a flag for thoughtfulness.† (source)
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