branch (out)

as in to part
to go or move in different directions from a central point the vine branched out as it climbed the trellis

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  • Rain drizzled down most of the day Friday and into the early evening, but before sunset, as Kansas City shredder Samantha Fish was unleashing on guitar, the clouds parted to make way for a vibrant, double rainbow that arched over the entire box canyon.
    Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Her hair was parted down the middle in loose waves.
    Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • The women’s orchestra, separated from their fellow inmates in a special block, was required by their Nazi overseers to play jaunty marches every morning and evening so that other female prisoners kept in step as they were sent to work outside the camp.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The Tamsui River is a major waterway and estuary in northern Taiwan that flows into the Taiwan Strait, the channel separating Taiwan from mainland China.
    Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
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  • In this ambitious account, Wang, a technology analyst with a journalist’s eye for color, uses studies of Chinese innovation to show how the two countries’ diverging paths and pathologies can be traced to their political cultures.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • With most hedge funds demanding short-term results, their incentives often diverge sharply from those of index and pension funds.
    Kai Liekefett, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Branch (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/branch%20%28out%29. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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