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bifurcate

[bahy-fer-keyt, bahy-fur-keyt, bahy-fer-kit, bahy-fur-] / ˈbaɪ fərˌkeɪt, baɪˈfɜr keɪt, ˈbaɪ fər kɪt, baɪˈfɜr- /


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Feldstein Soto said the proposal to bifurcate the office has nothing to do with her performance.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2026

“Mexico will be trying to bifurcate the issues of trade and drug trafficking,” says Henry Ziemer, an associate fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Americas Program.

From Barron's May 7, 2026

What identical twins do — be they the Mantles or the Peterses — is bifurcate desire.

From New York Times Feb. 12, 2024

“I told the staff at the White House today that our consensus among House Republicans is that we need to bifurcate those issues,” Mr. Johnson said Thursday in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

From Washington Times Oct. 27, 2023

I need to know that ramify and bifurcate are synonyms, if they even are?

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Figure 30.9 The trachea bifurcates into the right and left bronchi in the lungs.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Finally, speciation refers to branching, when one species bifurcates into two different species.

From Scientific American Sep. 16, 2019

In Arizona, west of Nogales, the border wall bifurcates the lands of the Tohono O’odham people, who live on the second-largest reservation in the United States.

From The New Yorker Mar. 4, 2019

Picture it: In the actors’ quarters a single hallway bifurcates six small dressing rooms, housing our cast of 26.

From New York Times Aug. 5, 2014

The main ventral trunk bifurcates into two branches, one of which passes onto the inner face of the sternum, and one of which supplies the posterior two intercostal spaces.

From Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae by Jenkinson, Marion Anne

Other cities have different models for the city attorney’s office: Long Beach has a similar model with bifurcated duties, while New York City has legal representation split up several ways.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2026

Gains for semiconductor hardware companies—including ASML, up 2.2%—counter losses in software, as the technology sector bifurcated.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

The country's growth model "has bifurcated into two distinct trends: weakening domestic demand and a shining performance in high-tech products", she said.

From Barron's May 18, 2026

On the other end of the spectrum, credit-card debt has risen to a record $1.3 trillion and more people are falling behind on payments, suggesting growing stress in an increasingly bifurcated economy.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

She ran her hand along a diagram gouged into the stone: a planet, bifurcated.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

“Stocks are reflecting our bifurcating ‘Tale of Two Economies’ view, where booming AI fixed investment is outperforming squeezed consumers.”

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

Ziwei Cong, a marketing professor at Georgetown University, sees AI slop bifurcating the internet.

From MarketWatch Dec. 29, 2025

“It’s this network where branches are bifurcating but also merging back together to create new species.”

From Science Magazine Apr. 17, 2024

Ryan's ad, intended to reach undecided voters, draws on the campaign-ad convention of bifurcating a clip into two parts, with more positive material in the second half.

From Salon Sep. 25, 2022

In Syria, Dr. Hooker and his party observed for me no less than five similar instances of the shoulder- stripe plainly bifurcating over the fore leg.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles




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