dichotomization

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Noun
  • The mass audience is now fragmented, there is more polarization of content, and the line between news and entertainment has blurred.
    Kirstin Pellizzaro, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Yet, as throngs of people strolled the three-block downtown on a recent April weekend, past American flag streamers, patriotic bunting and red brick colonial buildings, there was scant visible evidence of that polarization.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Viva’s owner, Grupo IAMSA, also operates a giant bus network and was fined in an antitrust investigation for monopolistic practices related to price manipulation and route segmentation in 2022.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The system begins by separating objects from the background using semantic segmentation.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Cutting up large or coarse ingredients like banana peels will speed up their decomposition.
    Jessica Damiano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Turn the pile regularly to aerate the pile and speed up decomposition.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Meanwhile, a diffusion model learned the finer details like small eddies and flows.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Inference costs are also now a major pressure point—one that may significantly slow AI diffusion across large enterprises.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says its investigators executed a search warrant April 29 in the River Forest subdivision as part of a multi-state drug operation.
    CBS News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The council also gave its formal approval of a settlement with Olthof Homes, which will pay $38,500 to the town from a 2022 case for stormwater violations found at the Springdale subdivision construction site.
    Amy Lavalley, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • This proprietary approach overcomes challenges of surface treatment and dispersion associated with the material.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Goldman notes that the three-month realized pairwise correlation among the major AI hyperscalers—Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle—has fallen sharply, with rising dispersion among the dominant names.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Chinamaxxing romanticizes things that feel structurally out of reach at home — compact, affordable-looking apartments; public transit that works; streets safe to walk at night; multigenerational households as an antidote to loneliness; communal meals as an antidote to atomization.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The atomization of society begins with your morning coffee.
    Jakub Grygiel, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2026
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“Dichotomization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dichotomization. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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