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Two days earlier, the commission voted unanimously to bifurcate the duties of the city attorney, currently an elected official who prosecutes misdemeanors and represents the city in civil litigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2026

“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

The thing I've learned the last couple of years about myself is, I'm better when I bifurcate them.

From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2023

I need to know that ramify and bifurcate are synonyms, if they even are?

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Finally, speciation refers to branching, when one species bifurcates into two different species.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 16, 2019

In Arizona, west of Nogales, the border wall bifurcates the lands of the Tohono O’odham people, who live on the second-largest reservation in the United States.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019

Picture it: In the actors’ quarters a single hallway bifurcates six small dressing rooms, housing our cast of 26.

From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2014

I-90 bifurcates the town; the overpass allows pedestrians to cross from one side to the other.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2014

There are generally stated to be two straits, but as one of them bifurcates, the Great Andaman proper is really cut into four parts.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by Kloss, C. Boden

The batch of data suggest that the world’s second-largest economy is becoming increasingly bifurcated as exports keep defying gravity, while consumption remains in the doldrums and the real-estate crisis lumbers on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Today’s media-verse is so fractured and bifurcated along political lines, I just assumed that confirmation bias would drive most folks toward friendly sources, i.e. what they want to hear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

Rainey described a bifurcated US shopper, where "the high income customer is spending with confidence into many categories while the lower income consumer is more budget conscious and perhaps navigating financial distress."

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

The district’s focus in recent days has been bifurcated: Continue negotiating to avoid a strike, while making contingency plans in case schools are closed Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

The AEC chairman could not imagine how a bifurcated weapons program would operate or how the reduction in responsibility for the Super would affect morale on the New Mexico mesa.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

“Stocks are reflecting our bifurcating ‘Tale of Two Economies’ view, where booming AI fixed investment is outperforming squeezed consumers.”

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

Ziwei Cong, a marketing professor at Georgetown University, sees AI slop bifurcating the internet.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025

“It’s this network where branches are bifurcating but also merging back together to create new species.”

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 17, 2024

It seems only fair, however, to acknowledge the genius who conceived of alternate or bifurcating realities decades ago, long before string theory, the internet and virtual reality: Jorge Luis Borges.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2020

Ridge C strikes into A at point B and should not be considered as a bifurcating ridge.

From The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses by Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)