bisected

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“It’s right here,” glaciologist Alison Criscitiello says, pointing to a nearly invisible gray smudge behind the glass, on a 5-foot-long, 1,550-year-old bisected cylinder of ice.

From Slate • May 8, 2026

An Instagram account with millions of views shows a woman in swimsuits and gymwear whose body is bisected by vitiligo so she is exactly half white and half brown.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The commuters in “Le Métro” hark back to his early streetcar scenes but now there’s an air of mystery to the straphangers, with the central figure’s face obscured and bisected by a subway pole.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

His surreal shows existed in their own meticulously realized world, whose distinctive designs were bisected by wires that turned the stage into a web.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2024

She went about picking tools off the shelf, holding them in the air so the sunlight bisected them.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely