as in radiating
to extend outwards from or as if from a central point
threads branched from the center of the spider web
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Recent Examples of branching
Anthropic's Claude has offered conversation branching for over a year, allowing users to switch between branches with navigational arrow buttons.
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Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Wide open areas with branching paths and extremely verticality are key to Metroidvania games like Hollow Knight, but usually the pleasure derived from unlocking a previously dead-end space comes from having an interconnected world.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
In these animals, astrocytes in a key brain region, the hypothalamus, lose some of their branching structures.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
What's mucking up the process is a telepathic outlier named The Mule (Pilou Asbæk), whose ravenous appetite for galactic dominance has created anomalies in Seldon's branching prognostications of how this whole ordeal will unfold.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Its approach adds structures inspired by dendrites, the branching extensions of neurons, to standard neural networks.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
There’s no telling which of those tests could perturb this new saltative branching model into its next evolutionary spike.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
The team found that each vagus nerve fiber connected to only one organ in the gut, rather than branching to many different organs as some had predicted.
—Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2025
Selected for larger fringed blooms, sturdy upright stems, improved disease resistance, and a good branching habit, 'Real Goldcup' produces an abundance of bright yellow flowers with a golden eye.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025
Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Wide open areas with branching paths and extremely verticality are key to Metroidvania games like Hollow Knight, but usually the pleasure derived from unlocking a previously dead-end space comes from having an interconnected world.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
In these animals, astrocytes in a key brain region, the hypothalamus, lose some of their branching structures.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
What's mucking up the process is a telepathic outlier named The Mule (Pilou Asbæk), whose ravenous appetite for galactic dominance has created anomalies in Seldon's branching prognostications of how this whole ordeal will unfold.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Its approach adds structures inspired by dendrites, the branching extensions of neurons, to standard neural networks.
—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
There’s no telling which of those tests could perturb this new saltative branching model into its next evolutionary spike.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
The team found that each vagus nerve fiber connected to only one organ in the gut, rather than branching to many different organs as some had predicted.
—Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2025
Selected for larger fringed blooms, sturdy upright stems, improved disease resistance, and a good branching habit, 'Real Goldcup' produces an abundance of bright yellow flowers with a golden eye.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for branching
Verb
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Lights appeared up ahead, radiating energy like celestial bodies.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Instead of sound radiating out at all angles, the sound is redirected by solid glass upwards to initially dissipate vertically instead of horizontally.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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For the health of the game, diverging too far from the system already in place seems unwise.—
Maury Brown,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Music and activism are not diverging forces for Olivia Pierce, who performs under the name Moyana.—
Britt Julious,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Branching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/branching. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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