bifurcate

For me, coming from a society where it’s all about skin color, it helped me understand that we as human beings will always figure out how to bifurcate and categorize and create hierarchy.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 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

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

At this point it bifurcates into the digital arteries.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks

“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

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

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

From MarketWatch ● May 31, 2026

Advocates say other cities have bifurcated offices, and splitting it could reduce conflict and provide a clear delineation of roles.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 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

From the delivery branches of the air-compressors a main 30in. in diameter will be laid along Henley Street, and, bifurcating, will be taken through Sampson Road North and Stratford Street at a diameter of 24in.

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Thomas T. Harman