How to Use digital divide in a Sentence

digital divide

noun
  • This is what has been known as the digital divide.
    — Raymond Pierce, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • How have schools in your area worked to bridge the digital divide?
    — Brian L. Frank For The Wall Street Journal, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
  • There’s a huge digital divide between the haves, and the have nots.
    — Kip Hill, The Seattle Times, 16 Mar. 2018
  • There is a long way to go before the digital divide is fully closed.
    — Brian L. Frank For The Wall Street Journal, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
  • That's a problem for tens of millions on the wrong side of the digital divide.
    — Marion Renault, Wired, 8 June 2020
  • And so the digital divide, which some say has become a chasm, remains.
    — Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2021
  • OneWeb is on a path to play a major role in bridging the digital divide from space.
    — Greg Wyler For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 22 July 2019
  • And that means more Americans are left on the wrong side of the digital divide.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The scene underscored the width of the state's digital divide.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Broadly, there are two main ways for telecoms to shore up the current digital divide.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The digital divide hasn’t gone away, despite much money spent and many speeches made.
    — WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The digital divide is more than just a catch-all term for inequities in internet access.
    — Kathleen Kewley, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • This year, the gulf between students on either side of the digital divide could widen further.
    — Pia Ceres, Wired, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The city of San Diego has taken some steps to address the digital divide.
    — Barbara Bry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2021
  • But the data problems are just the first in a series of thorny challenges in closing the digital divide.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 9 June 2021
  • School districts and cities across the country are racing to bridge a digital divide that has existed for decades.
    — Brian L. Frank For The Wall Street Journal, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The digital divide is no longer just about geography.
    — Kori Hale, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • What happens when the digital divide becomes an AI chasm?
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2023
  • But the digital divide has proved narrower than feared, largely thanks to the prevalence of smartphones.
    — Eric Scigliano, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Zoom or FaceTime just wasn’t going to cut it in this part of town, where the digital divide is more pronounced.
    — Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The cost to closing the digital divide in the US is about $11 billion.
    — Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 2 July 2020
  • At the same time, private industry also has a role to fill in bridging the digital divide, said Ford.
    — Fortune, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Enterprises are facing a new kind of digital divide due to the rush to adopt AI.
    — Rajat Bhargava, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Having a website that considers a range of needs is one of the single most important ways to bridge the digital divide.
    — Solomon Thimothy, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
  • Younger, higher-income users adopt AI fastest, which means the digital divide is widening too.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • The digital divide is the gap between people and access to computers, internet and the skills to use them.
    — AZCentral.com, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Learn more about how GIS technology can be used to bridge the digital divide.
    — Kathleen Kewley, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The issues caused by the digital divide are more evident than ever in the Covid-19 era.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 8 Dec. 2020
  • But the homework gap is not just an American problem -- schools all over the world are trying to battle the digital divide.
    — Selena Randhawa, CNN, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The digital divide was the largest among millennial and Gen X bank customers.
    — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2018

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