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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

This injury inspires Don’s malevolent plot to sunder the affection between Claude and Higgy as wedding bells are ready to peal.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2015

“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

The unity which sunders itself into the multiplicity of things may be called the monas monadum, each thing being a monas or self-existent, living being, a universe in itself.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

In the chapter on "La Morale Mystique"—one which has been sharply criticised by Christians—Maeterlinck sunders the soul from the conscious acts of the body.

From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell

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

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

But when the university ordered them off campus, their sense of safety was sundered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

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

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023

Her first task would be to unify a party that has been sundered by the drama of the Johnson years and is bleeding support among voters.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

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

In any case, I started with Elf Ear, Nebraska, and the stage and the sundering that occurred there.

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo