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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

“You will voluntarily sunder my last knot, the final impediment to my independence, if I restore your grandmother to her human form?”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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

"Now, I will prove," he thunders,  "What rumor means by this, That all blades Fridthjof sunders, And never sues for peace."

From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Martha A. Lyon Holcomb

I done what I could to keep you and Tickler in sunders, but my power were not always fully equal to my inclinations.

From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

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

It has sundered us in ways that are intractable and complex — exposing rifts that cannot be reconciled in eight or even 8,000 hours of discussion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2021

It sundered, and a pale spindle of light gleamed between his opened arms, a faint oval reaching from the ground up to the height of his raised hands.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

But I want you to know that there is no curse of sundering upon my head.

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo