bifurcate
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The decision to bifurcate the position came after consulting with good governance groups, the public and city departments, Andrades said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 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
"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
I need to know that ramify and bifurcate are synonyms, if they even are?
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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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
The main ventral trunk bifurcates into two branches, one of which passes onto the inner face of the sternum, and one of which supplies the posterior two intercostal spaces.
From Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae by Marion Anne Jenkinson
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 country's growth model "has bifurcated into two distinct trends: weakening domestic demand and a shining performance in high-tech products", she said.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
On the other end of the spectrum, credit-card debt has risen to a record $1.3 trillion and more people are falling behind on payments, suggesting growing stress in an increasingly bifurcated economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
“The U.S. consumer remains resilient in the aggregate but increasingly bifurcated beneath the surface,” said Charles Scharf, CEO of Wells Fargo, in an earnings call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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
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“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
For now, the housing market is bifurcating, with the market for purchased homes slowing even as the rental market remains hot — a trend Eric Parks has witnessed.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
A lofty ridge traverses the floor from S. to N., bifurcating before it reaches the N. wall.
From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger
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