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bifurcate

[bahy-fer-keyt, bahy-fur-keyt, bahy-fer-kit, bahy-fur-] / ˈbaɪ fərˌkeɪt, baɪˈfɜr keɪt, ˈbaɪ fər kɪt, baɪˈfɜr- /


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Feldstein Soto said the proposal to bifurcate the office has nothing to do with her performance.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2026

“Mexico will be trying to bifurcate the issues of trade and drug trafficking,” says Henry Ziemer, an associate fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Americas Program.

From Barron's May 7, 2026

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

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

Below the College the administration bifurcates, the ordinary course of business flows through the Senate, the extraordinary through the Ten.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

Today’s media-verse is so fractured and bifurcated along political lines, I just assumed that confirmation bias would drive most folks toward friendly sources, i.e. what they want to hear.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2026

Rainey described a bifurcated US shopper, where "the high income customer is spending with confidence into many categories while the lower income consumer is more budget conscious and perhaps navigating financial distress."

From Barron's May 21, 2026

Gains for semiconductor hardware companies—including ASML, up 2.2%—counter losses in software, as the technology sector bifurcated.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

The district’s focus in recent days has been bifurcated: Continue negotiating to avoid a strike, while making contingency plans in case schools are closed Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 13, 2026

She ran her hand along a diagram gouged into the stone: a planet, bifurcated.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

“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

This is precisely the sort of middle-income job needed in the Bay Area, which like many urban areas is bifurcating into an economy of high-wage knowledge jobs and low-wage service jobs.

From New York Times Dec. 29, 2019

The great Gulf Stream which, bifurcating at the Azores, sweeps southwards with easting, now sets in our favour; it is, however, partly a wind-current, and here it often flows to the west even in winter.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir




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