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
Unlike the branching corals, which were victims of water that at one point reached hot tub temperatures, pillar coral’s killer was mostly a pernicious and little understood coral disease, story coral tissue loss disease, although extreme heat did claim some.
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Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Since the Ice Age, elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast have been stacking their skeletons into elaborate, branching homes for parrotfish, eels and octopuses.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
This will promote branching and produce a fuller plant.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
And the Guinness family made a mark well outside the brewery, with subsequent generations branching into politics, banking, land development, and more.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
Trump has a long history of moving from one tactic to another, like an ape branching between trees.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
The follow-up to Obsidian Entertainment’s excellent action RPG The Outer Worlds brings the space-faring adventure to a new setting with a new cast of characters, but with the same emphasis on branching story paths based on how players interact with the game’s NPCs.
—Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Anthropic's Claude has offered conversation branching for over a year, allowing users to switch between branches with navigational arrow buttons.
—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
Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Since the Ice Age, elkhorn and staghorn corals off Florida’s southern coast have been stacking their skeletons into elaborate, branching homes for parrotfish, eels and octopuses.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
This will promote branching and produce a fuller plant.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
And the Guinness family made a mark well outside the brewery, with subsequent generations branching into politics, banking, land development, and more.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
Trump has a long history of moving from one tactic to another, like an ape branching between trees.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
The follow-up to Obsidian Entertainment’s excellent action RPG The Outer Worlds brings the space-faring adventure to a new setting with a new cast of characters, but with the same emphasis on branching story paths based on how players interact with the game’s NPCs.
—Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Anthropic's Claude has offered conversation branching for over a year, allowing users to switch between branches with navigational arrow buttons.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for branching
Verb
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The green leaves radiating from the base of each dandelion.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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Comet Lemmon's tail was formed when heat radiating from the sun caused icy materials embedded in its ancient body to transform directly into gas, a process known as sublimation.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The key people in Haiti hold diverging views on whether to maintain or modify the current transitional governance arrangement, Guterres said.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
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In a joint interview, Allen and Moretz spoke with Them about the work of taking a character like Maddie from page to stage, and about diverging from traditional trans narratives to tell a new kind of family story.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them.,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Branching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/branching. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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