bisected
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“It’s right here,” glaciologist Alison Criscitiello says, pointing to a nearly invisible gray smudge behind the glass, on a 5-foot-long, 1,550-year-old bisected cylinder of ice.
From Slate ● May 8, 2026
An Instagram account with millions of views shows a woman in swimsuits and gymwear whose body is bisected by vitiligo so she is exactly half white and half brown.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
It’s bisected by La Cienega Boulevard, a thoroughfare that carries six lanes of high-speed traffic through the gritty landscape of the oil field, which feels like a relic of old L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
The commuters in “Le Métro” hark back to his early streetcar scenes but now there’s an air of mystery to the straphangers, with the central figure’s face obscured and bisected by a subway pole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Against the khaki-colored sand and the green shore wavelets, his body was bisected for a moment, like a white worm.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
