as in to subdivide
formal
to undergo division into two parts
The stream bifurcated into two narrow winding channels.
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Recent Examples of bifurcate
The large headlamp clusters are now horizontally bifurcated by a body color strip creating two slimmer clusters with LED lamps now standard on the 2500 model.
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Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Raptors broadcasts are bifurcated by Canada’s TSN and Sportsnet networks.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Intel's Core Ultra 200 series is currently bifurcated between two architectures: Lunar Lake, which powers the Core Ultra 200V series of laptop chips; and Arrow Lake, which is included in the Core Ultra 200S desktop processors.
—Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2025
The exes, who had their divorce bifurcated, were declared legally single in 2019.
—Elizabeth Rosner, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
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Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Raptors broadcasts are bifurcated by Canada’s TSN and Sportsnet networks.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Intel's Core Ultra 200 series is currently bifurcated between two architectures: Lunar Lake, which powers the Core Ultra 200V series of laptop chips; and Arrow Lake, which is included in the Core Ultra 200S desktop processors.
—Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2025
The exes, who had their divorce bifurcated, were declared legally single in 2019.
—Elizabeth Rosner, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bifurcate
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One of the three items set to come before the Aurora City Council at the Feb. 25 meeting would subdivide the property into three — one for the church and its related buildings, one for the supportive housing project and one for an existing two-unit residential house.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
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Some parts of the brain subdivided the experience into shorter segments.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
21 Feb. 2025
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The game is split into night and day cycles, where the danger of the journey melts into campfire talk at night and exchanging stories with other travelers.—
Megan Farokhmanesh,
WIRED,
5 Mar. 2025
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Revenue from unified agreements will now be split between the five organizations proportionate to membership count, and the collective has picked longtime Six Flags Entertainment executive Stephanie Borges as its dealmaking point person, according to USA Fencing CEO Phil Andrews.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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Primary care has long been associated with the image of a busy doctor, divided between patients and the administrative grind.—
Stephen Wunker,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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For decades afterward and until the advent of internet telephony, Druze families divided by the armistice lines who wanted to communicate with one another did so via megaphone in an area that came to be known as Shouting Hill.—
Uriel Heilman,
New York Daily News,
2 Mar. 2025
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The January Starship mishap occurred over the North Atlantic after the 171-foot (52-meter) Starship separated from the Super Heavy rocket booster that hauled it toward space.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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Race for the Big Ten Title With just a half-game separating UCLA from first-place USC in the Big Ten standings, every game down the stretch is crucial.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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Employers can also segment their internal communications' strategies by department or geography and think about unique ways to engage those specific groups.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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The brain was not just segmenting at the boundaries people recognized as meaningful scene changes.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Bifurcate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bifurcate. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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