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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

At Tumbao it bifurcates, and enters the Bay of Illana by two mouths forming a long narrow delta of deep and rich alluvial soil.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

And consumer spending has been resilient, albeit bifurcated, which has helped restaurants, retailers and travel companies.

From MarketWatch ● May 31, 2026

Advocates say other cities have bifurcated offices, and splitting it could reduce conflict and provide a clear delineation of roles.

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 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

The AEC chairman could not imagine how a bifurcated weapons program would operate or how the reduction in responsibility for the Super would affect morale on the New Mexico mesa.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

“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

The four rivers flow out of it by bifurcating.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake