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“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

The package is currently slated to be voted on as a single item, though it’s possible one or more council members could attempt to bifurcate sections of it during Friday’s meeting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 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

Not very far above the bridge the river bifurcates, the two branches being east and west to match the twin-town.

From Cornwall by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

“You almost have this bifurcated market, where you’ve got AI and then everything else. That lends itself to lower correlation and lower volatility at the index level,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

And consumer spending has been resilient, albeit bifurcated, which has helped restaurants, retailers and travel companies.

From MarketWatch ● May 31, 2026

Other cities have different models for the city attorney’s office: Long Beach has a similar model with bifurcated duties, while New York City has legal representation split up several ways.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

“The U.S. consumer remains resilient in the aggregate but increasingly bifurcated beneath the surface,” said Charles Scharf, CEO of Wells Fargo, in an earnings call.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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

“There’s a bifurcating in this AI trade, just like there’s been a bifurcating of consumers and the housing market,” said Byron Anderson, a portfolio manager and head of fixed income at Laffer Tengler Investments.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

“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

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

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 17, 2024

For now, the housing market is bifurcating, with the market for purchased homes slowing even as the rental market remains hot — a trend Eric Parks has witnessed.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2022

In Syria, Dr. Hooker and his party observed for me no less than five similar instances of the shoulder- stripe plainly bifurcating over the fore leg.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin