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fractionated

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verb

past tense of fractionate
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Adjective
  • The House and Senate remain divided on raises for school staff.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Polling suggests many voters believe the country is deeply divided and that polarization is expanding across the 50 states.
    Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The pairing of two of the underground’s wildest bands, powered by two of the most formidable drummers in the biz — OOIOO’s YoshimiO and the Bolt’s Brian Chippendale—is a lot to handle as a split album.
    Reed Jackson, SPIN, 24 Apr. 2026
  • His current favorite is the Pollock and Casper, the restaurant’s Gemini cocktail, a split base of gin and duck fat washed vodka, finished with saffron oil, designed to capture the duality the sign is known for.
    Avery Newmark, AJC.com, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The two rows of buildings are cleaved down the middle by a pathway leading visitors toward the temple.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • But there’s one factor helping them on Iran policy right now, two decades after Iraq cleaved the Democratic Party in two.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 28 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Among the issues dissected are the price hikes, advertising momentum, the ongoing debate about Netflix’s engagement trends, and, yes, the World Baseball Classic.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Historians have dissected the poem since 1860 and compared it to Revere’s account of the ride in his own words and other historic evidence.
    Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 17 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Fine jewelry has been separated from the trashy costume stuff.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The first six cars of the train were separated from the rest and continued on to Penn.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Now we’re bifurcated, with roughly a third of our households not meeting self-sufficiency standards, and more than a third achieving wealth that was unimaginable a generation ago.
    Russell Hancock, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Iran has effectively bifurcated the strait between its traditional Navy and the more aggressive Revolutionary Guard.
    Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • This tadpole-like object is a clump of denser nebulosity that hasn't been completely photo-dissociated by the Trifid's radiation field yet.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Terms of UsePrivacy Policy Terms of UsePrivacy Policy Some fans attribute that to past infidelity and her being dissociated from the sentimental moment as a result.
    Essence, Essence, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Odom was divorced from Herbert Odom, a prominent Black South Side dentist and amateur boxer.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • El Gamal has since divorced the children's father, Mohammed Soliman, whose family has said spent little time at home before the incident and was often withdrawn.
    Alan Gionet, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
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“Fractionated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionated. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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