bifurcate
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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
For me, coming from a society where it’s all about skin color, it helped me understand that we as human beings will always figure out how to bifurcate and categorize and create hierarchy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 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
"History is going to bifurcate along two directions. One path is we stay on Earth forever, and then there will be some eventual extinction event," Musk said in 2016.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2023
I need to know that ramify and bifurcate are synonyms, if they even are?
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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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
I-90 bifurcates the town; the overpass allows pedestrians to cross from one side to the other.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2014
Of these the superior branch bifurcates, and one of its branches goes to the right breast, the other to the left, conveying blood from the liver.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer
Today’s media-verse is so fractured and bifurcated along political lines, I just assumed that confirmation bias would drive most folks toward friendly sources, i.e. what they want to hear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
And consumer spending has been resilient, albeit bifurcated, which has helped restaurants, retailers and travel companies.
From MarketWatch ● May 31, 2026
“The U.S. consumer remains resilient in the aggregate but increasingly bifurcated beneath the surface,” said Charles Scharf, CEO of Wells Fargo, in an earnings call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
The district’s focus in recent days has been bifurcated: Continue negotiating to avoid a strike, while making contingency plans in case schools are closed Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
She ran her hand along a diagram gouged into the stone: a planet, bifurcated.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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“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
In addition to bifurcating the complex, residents argued that it would lead to overcrowding, straining already limited resources.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
The great Gulf Stream which, bifurcating at the Azores, sweeps southwards with easting, now sets in our favour; it is, however, partly a wind-current, and here it often flows to the west even in winter.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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