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Democratic consultant Jim Ross and his Republican consultant brother, Tom, say their affection and mutual regard is something no campaign can ever sunder — even in these contentious times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025

Importing market logic into a longer-term, less impersonal relationship makes no sense, and in fact, it tends to sunder those relations.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2019

Any move to sunder diplomatic relations again would recreate a long-standing irritant for the region.

From Economist ● Oct. 5, 2017

It felt wrong to sunder this character binary at the heart of Irrational's metaphysically harrowing BioShock games.

From Time ● Jun. 30, 2017

“You will voluntarily sunder my last knot, the final impediment to my independence, if I restore your grandmother to her human form?”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

By the memoir’s end, that tidal wave sunders the relationship among the sisters and destroys the world of their childhood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Ebola sunders the bonds that make us human.

From Slate ● Sep. 19, 2014

Each autumn - or earlier, if summer is particularly disappointing - there's an argument that sunders households up and down the country.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2013

That war takes the young; that war sunders the lovers; that all over Europe brides and bridegrooms are parting at the church door: all that is only a commonplace to commonplace people.

From The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The very thunderbolt that rives the oak and by its shock sunders the soul from the body of some unfortunate one purifies the air that millions may breathe the breath of life.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum

The partition that once sealed out the cranks and mediocrities has been permanently sundered.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

They spoke of how their community would be sundered and friendships lost, because their public school is at the center of these bonds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

Genealogy search registries can repair sundered ancestral bonds, reuniting relatives yearning for kinship.

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023

Her first task would be to unify a party that has been sundered by the drama of the Johnson years and is bleeding support among voters.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

Mere boys ruled in their stead, and the realm that Aegon the Conqueror had forged was smashed and sundered.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

We’ve met the third sundering already, the Mother of All Partitions—that of India and Pakistan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Although the region had been volcanically dormant for centuries, the tectonic sundering happening in the depths meant that the latest eruptions have long been in the works.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 24, 2023

Taranti’s sundering from her beloved spirit family and Paranto’s inability to speak to his dead father in waking life are just single moments of personal drama in a vast historical shift.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2023

Ironically, “the” Reformation as the sundering of Christian unity was at least in part the product of prosaic reformations already occurring within the Church.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

I guess that is what the curse of sundering will do to you if it has been placed upon your head—it will change how the earth itself moves.

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo