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
An important element of structure is to be noted at this point: the poem bifurcates and the reader has to move in two directions.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
And consumer spending has been resilient, albeit bifurcated, which has helped restaurants, retailers and travel companies.
From MarketWatch ● May 31, 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
“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 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
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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
Ryan's ad, intended to reach undecided voters, draws on the campaign-ad convention of bifurcating a clip into two parts, with more positive material in the second half.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 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 Elger, Thomas Gwyn
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