carve up

verb

carved up; carving up; carves up
usually disapproving
: to divide something into small parts
The once beautiful countryside has been carved up by developers.

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Milhouse’s wishes come true when the Grand Pumpkin turns out to be real, but he’s pissed that humans carve up his pumpkin brothers and sisters for fun. — Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026 When Anthropic goes public, the stock its seven cofounders hold stands to be worth up to $200 billion between them, carved up into seven nearly identical piles. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026 Ken Dorsey, Miami, 2000 Down 24-20 with 97 seconds left, Dorsey carved up FSU, completing 6 of 7 passes, the final connection to Jeremy Shockey in the back of the end zone from 13 yards out with 46 seconds left. — Steve Svekis, Sun Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2026 More immediately, the decision in Callais set off a pell-mell process of new gerrymanders that carved up majority-minority districts into fragments designed to dilute Democratic votes. — John Fabian Witt, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for carve up

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