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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

What identical twins do — be they the Mantles or the Peterses — is bifurcate desire.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

“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

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 C. Boden Kloss

“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

Jason Lemkin, founder of a SaaS organization called SaaStr, said the industry has bifurcated into companies that have embraced AI and are growing and others who haven’t and are struggling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● May 31, 2026

The country's growth model "has bifurcated into two distinct trends: weakening domestic demand and a shining performance in high-tech products", she said.

From Barron's ● May 18, 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

Ryan's ad, intended to reach undecided voters, draws on the campaign-ad convention of bifurcating a clip into two parts, with more positive material in the second half.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2022

On the other side of the same individual the artery passed dorsal to M. costi-sternalis anterior, bifurcating at the normal point.

From Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae by Marion Anne Jenkinson