sundered

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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

The post-communist Russia of the 1990s, led by Boris Yeltsin, the country’s first freely elected leader, had sundered.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2022

The midmost stood somewhat forward from the others and sundered from them, an island in the waters, about which the flowing River flung pale shimmering arms.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien