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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

Taran expected Fflewddur’s harp strings to sunder at any moment.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

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

Even death, which sunders us from our friends, cannot permanently divide us.

From Friendship by Hugh Black

Time sunders hearts as of brethren whose eyes behold    No more their mother: But a cry sounds yet from the shrine whose fires wax cold,    Alas my brother!

From A Century of Roundels by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2023

When he turned to the more densely populated precincts near Boulder, Adams saw that the harmony between nature and civilization had sundered.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022

It’s a shame that the story wasn’t set elsewhere and sundered from the journalistic record.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 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

Over the sundering leagues of land, far away they gazed to the edge of sight, and hope and fear bore their thoughts still on, beyond dark mountains to the Land of Shadow.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien