sundered

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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

The midmost stood somewhat forward from the others and sundered from them, an island in the waters, about which the flowing River flung pale shimmering arms.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien