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adverb

ə-ˈpärt How to pronounce apart (audio)
Definition of apartnext
as in to pieces
into parts or pieces the fancy new adjustable rake came apart the first time I tried to use it

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apart

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adjective

as in nowhere

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Recent Examples of apart
Adverb
At the time, Rastinejad and her colleagues wondered whether a black hole’s gravity had ripped up a companion neutron star, as if unseen godly hands had pulled it apart like dough. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 Players-only meetings are often a red flag and a sign of a team splintering apart. — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026
Adjective
Cover and cook on high for 4 to 5 hours or low for 7 to 8 hours, until the beef is fall-apart tender. — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026 The falling apart part is crucial. — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for apart
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apart
  1. asunder
  2. nowhere
  3. isolated
  4. outlying
  5. secluded
  6. retired
  7. secret
  8. odd
Adverb
  • This destruction derby, which was recently observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, has a messy distribution of mass that only makes sense if dark matter and ordinary matter got torn asunder during the collision.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026
  • All asunder in the face and his eyes like a frightened bird’s?
    — Kevin Barry, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of asunder
Adjective
  • The guy who came out of nowhere wins where no one else usually does.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Our range includes a meandering cowboy odyssey that sprawls from a nowhere town in Texas to Big Sky country, a poignantly observant memoir from a wild child Dreamlander, and a careful dissection of a situationship set to the rhythms of 1970s Brazil.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of nowhere
Adjective
  • That night, Pike, her boyfriend, 17-year-old Tadaryl Shipp, and an acquaintance, Shadolla Peterson, 18, lured Slemmer to an isolated area behind the agricultural campus steam plant.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • One of the coolest things happening in hip-hop production right now is the way different isolated microscenes are mining the dance music of the Black diaspora.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of isolated
Adjective
  • Most communities will fall into the lower and middle 50s, with a few outlying locations potentially dropping into the upper 40s.
    — Michael Autovino, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Most of those contributions were small, with a few outlying donations that were in the thousands.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of outlying
Adjective
  • Hampton Island, Georgia Affleck’s Georgia estate is hardly a standard holiday house and more like a secluded coastal compound.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Oct. 2026
  • There are two secluded Mallorcan calas that guests can access, with one just steps from my own door and therefore ideal for a morning dip in the still-pleasant October waters.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of secluded
Adjective
  • The retired detective, who left the NYPD 25 years ago, was ordered held on $1 million bail.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The American Humane Society will certify Warhound’s training programs and help reunite retired dogs with their former handlers.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of retired
Adjective
  • Perhaps that doubt is the secret melancholy at the heart of even their most seemingly celebratory songs.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2026
  • On Monday, a court granted the US government’s request to deny release of a former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a top-secret conference room to steal the frontier lab’s secrets.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of secret
Adjective
  • Those visual gags feel like an odd fit for the material; Ishiguro is known more for low-grade existential sadness than slapstick.
    — Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026
  • McKee has had a bit of an odd season starting from training camp when the Eagles brought in veteran Andy Dalton to challenge for the backup job.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of odd

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“Apart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apart. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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