bifurcate
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The decision to bifurcate the position came after consulting with good governance groups, the public and city departments, Andrades said.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2026
For me, coming from a society where it’s all about skin color, it helped me understand that we as human beings will always figure out how to bifurcate and categorize and create hierarchy.
From New York Times • Jan. 16, 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
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