as in apart
into parts or pieces the environmental organization was torn asunder by bitter rivalries

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Recent Examples of asunder This week, another late-night TV show was struck asunder, the Fed lowered interest rates and a new American Girl doll debuted. Holly J. Morris, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025 No engulfment, no tearing asunder. Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025 The combination of Kraft and Heinz, wed with glorious self-praise in 2015, will be legally rent asunder. Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Not even a messy divorce could tear them asunder. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for asunder
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  • For instance, last year, investigators looked into a pair of fatal accidents that had happened two days apart at the same intersection in Melbourne, Florida, a small, coastal city 70 miles southeast of Orlando.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • And so to see this whole thing falling apart, her son going down the tubes, what's going to happen to him, her husband, lie after lie and deception after deception, on top of things that predate the show.
    H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Asunder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/asunder. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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