bisected

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Should it matter if I belonged to a news network where producing child smokers and trisected teens were institutional policies?

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2021

The three estates that used these three languages before the plague don’t map comfortably on to our modern notions of a society trisected into workers, the middle class and the wealthy.

From The Guardian • Sep. 6, 2019

Right now, thousands of party officials find themselves torn in two and sometimes even trisected as the contenders seek pledges of support.

From Time Magazine Archive

The angle ACB is therefore easily divided into three equal parts, or in other words, it is trisected.

From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John

But could not have I reduced it a drop a day, or, by adding water, have bisected or trisected a drop? 

From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas