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Recent Examples of bifurcation The bifurcation between property-haves and property-have nots has substantially worsened since the crisis. Sahil Mahtani, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2017 This proactive approach has resulted in a bifurcation of the industry into two distinct camps: those focused on infrastructure and those prioritizing applications. Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025 An ongoing theme of the post-pandemic recovery has been a widening bifurcation of American household finances. Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2025 That bifurcation extends to your casting as well. Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bifurcation
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Noun
  • The show’s divergence here is enormous, first by grounding Tommy in Jackson rather than as the leader of the violent excursion and secondly removing any guise about Ellie’s intentions.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2025
  • The existence of the monarchy is the country’s original divergence.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • The latter split at the end of the 1968 season due to financial disagreements and eventually founded the current PGA Tour.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 May 2025
  • Following the split, she was also rumored to be dating Prince Constantine-Alexios of Greece and Denmark.
    Rachel McRady, People.com, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • The dissolution of the PKK raises a host of questions for the Islamist government of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the pro-American Kurdish forces (YPG) in northern Syrian who helped defeat the Islamist State terrorist movement.
    Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 12 May 2025
  • More broadly, the dissolution of the foreign aid program is a significant example of a broader trend the administration is pursuing: sacrificing soft power for hard power.
    Time, Time, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • That’s not to discount what the Golden Knights accomplished in their fourth division title in eight years.
    Jesse Granger, New York Times, 15 May 2025
  • Evanston In Evanston, the only change to local beaches will be providing free beach access to all students enrolled in Evanston-Skokie School District 65 or Evanston Township High School, said Tim Carter, lakefront and athletics division manager for the city.
    Phil Rockrohr, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • In the last three years, Showering has had no shortage of such big moments—the birth of her child, a breakup, the loss of two grandmothers, a move from London to rural Somerset.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 8 May 2025
  • Anne, a pet parent living in France, recently went through a breakup, which led to her ex-boyfriend moving out of the apartment.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • The partition of colonial India established a secular, Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
    Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 8 May 2025
  • Indeed the two countries went to war over Kashmir within a year of the partition of India soon after the creation of Pakistan.
    Ayesha Jalal, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • One of the biggest distinctions between a dedicated business owner and someone simply with some side freelance income is the separation of business and personal funds.
    Vlad Rusz, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Florida played from behind all of Game 1, failed to get any separation in Game 2 and had to rally from multiple two-goal deficits in Game 3.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The Catholic Church faces similar challenges but so far has been able to avoid schisms by limiting the actual changes being made.
    Dennis Doyle, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
  • But as President Trump exerts near-total control over the Republican Party, and the country seems bitterly divided along partisan lines more than ever, the G.O.P. schism in Montana has attracted outsize attention.
    Will Warasila, New York Times, 3 May 2025

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“Bifurcation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bifurcation. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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