as in to subdivide
formal
to undergo division into two parts
The stream bifurcated into two narrow winding channels.
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Recent Examples of bifurcate
Especially given the value of sports rights, some programmers could also bifurcate their rights.
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Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
The lens surface gradually transitions in prescription strength, with no lines bifurcating your vision.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
These goals may appear bifurcated, but they will become increasingly intertwined in the years ahead.
—Gary Roughead, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
It’s also oddly bifurcated into two noticeably chunks, with the first half focusing on Hank and Yvonne’s tender but touchy, highly tectchy relationship and the second half leaning into the gonzo forward momentum of a get-the-dough crime flick.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
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Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
The lens surface gradually transitions in prescription strength, with no lines bifurcating your vision.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
These goals may appear bifurcated, but they will become increasingly intertwined in the years ahead.
—Gary Roughead, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
It’s also oddly bifurcated into two noticeably chunks, with the first half focusing on Hank and Yvonne’s tender but touchy, highly tectchy relationship and the second half leaning into the gonzo forward momentum of a get-the-dough crime flick.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bifurcate
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His family reportedly subdivided and then sold off the entire property, including its farmlands, for $4.5 million in 2013.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
6 Oct. 2025
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The fields near where her grandfather grew up are now subdivided into small plots full of houses.—
Janet W. Lee,
NPR,
24 Sep. 2025
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Sometimes lightning hits the mountainside and splits or burns a tree.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Jeanty, initially lined up in the right slot, motioned into the backfield, leaving Bowers and wide receiver Jakobi Meyers lined up to that side, with receivers Tyler Lockett and Tre Tucker split to the left.—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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The move is, of course, dividing Americans, with some people arguing that every president makes changes to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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In this stratified society, citizens are divided into seven status levels that determine every aspect of their lives — from housing to occupation to food rations.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
29 Oct. 2025
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That’s one investment that has proved rather unfruitful so far, although things appear to be looking up for WBD investors currently with company on the auction block and simultaneously preparing to separate its cable operations and studios/streaming into to companies.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
29 Oct. 2025
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The actor and his ex-wife Dewan, 44, separated back in 2018 and settled their divorce in September 2024.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Wikipedia also represents an earlier, democratic vision for the open web, before giant tech platforms came to dominate and segment the internet.—
David Ingram,
NBC news,
28 Oct. 2025
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Hill is also changing the way the business is segmented and returning it to its historical roots.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,
CNBC,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Bifurcate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bifurcate. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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