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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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Two days earlier, the commission voted unanimously to bifurcate the duties of the city attorney, currently an elected official who prosecutes misdemeanors and represents the city in civil litigation.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 28, 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

"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

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

This passage bifurcates, one branch opening through the tower floor, the other into a small square room.

From Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by United States. Dept. of the Interior

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

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

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

“It reinforces a bifurcated market; slower macro growth paired with accelerating technological transformation,” she said.

From Barron's Mar. 10, 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

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

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 Charles Darwin




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