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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

The social and political fault lines that were fast opening up in pre-war, wartime and then post-war India are every bit as complex and bewildering as the physical tears that sunder the immense Himalayan peaks.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2018

Any move to sunder diplomatic relations again would recreate a long-standing irritant for the region.

From Economist ● Oct. 5, 2017

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

The valour from virtue that sunders, Is 'reft of its nobler part; And Lancelot's arm may work wonders, But braver is Galahad's heart.

From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

Man often implicates himself early in snares, the gordian knot of which death alone forcibly sunders!

From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various

The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

Cullors said that Ifá allows her to reconnect with a lost ancestry sundered by the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

Genealogy search registries can repair sundered ancestral bonds, reuniting relatives yearning for kinship.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023

The post-communist Russia of the 1990s, led by Boris Yeltsin, the country’s first freely elected leader, had sundered.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 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

Ironically, “the” Reformation as the sundering of Christian unity was at least in part the product of prosaic reformations already occurring within the Church.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

The flock is sundering, scattering: it is paper.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr