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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

So their 'solution' was to sunder the siblings.

From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 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

What hearts it sunders and wounds with its fierce stabs; and how powerless are most to rise above it or shake off its strong iron grasp.

From It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) by Mrs. Henry Wood

Our teacher was taken from us; perhaps by mere change of place, and the chances of this mortal life; perhaps by death, which sunders all fair bonds upon this side the grave. 

From Discipline and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley

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

It’s a shame that the story wasn’t set elsewhere and sundered from the journalistic record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 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

I could not seem to escape the curse of sundering.

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo