sunder
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Democratic consultant Jim Ross and his Republican consultant brother, Tom, say their affection and mutual regard is something no campaign can ever sunder — even in these contentious times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025
Importing market logic into a longer-term, less impersonal relationship makes no sense, and in fact, it tends to sunder those relations.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2019
Any move to sunder diplomatic relations again would recreate a long-standing irritant for the region.
From Economist ● Oct. 5, 2017
Marriages sunder and dates go wrong, especially for Theodore.
From Time ● Oct. 12, 2013
Taran expected Fflewddur’s harp strings to sunder at any moment.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
By the memoir’s end, that tidal wave sunders the relationship among the sisters and destroys the world of their childhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Ebola sunders the bonds that make us human.
From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2014
Each autumn - or earlier, if summer is particularly disappointing - there's an argument that sunders households up and down the country.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2013
On the lean, green edge for ever, Where the blank chalk touched the turf, The child played on, alone, divine, As a child plays on the last line That sunders sand and surf.
From The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
And what variety of form and structure sunders them from other trees, what irregular persuasive grace.
From Apologia Diffidentis by O. M. (Ormonde Maddock) Dalton
The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026
The sundered ship fans out like a deck of cards then collapses, smoldering.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Genealogy search registries can repair sundered ancestral bonds, reuniting relatives yearning for kinship.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023
It’s a shame that the story wasn’t set elsewhere and sundered from the journalistic record.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
Mere boys ruled in their stead, and the realm that Aegon the Conqueror had forged was smashed and sundered.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
We’ve met the third sundering already, the Mother of All Partitions—that of India and Pakistan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Although the region had been volcanically dormant for centuries, the tectonic sundering happening in the depths meant that the latest eruptions have long been in the works.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 24, 2023
Taranti’s sundering from her beloved spirit family and Paranto’s inability to speak to his dead father in waking life are just single moments of personal drama in a vast historical shift.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023
In response to a dynamic of sundering, he makes an art of adding, combining.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2020
I guess that is what the curse of sundering will do to you if it has been placed upon your head—it will change how the earth itself moves.
From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo
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