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
And the Guinness family made a mark well outside the brewery, with subsequent generations branching into politics, banking, land development, and more.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for branching
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What had seemed an impossible task transformed into a practical matter of six little arrows, radiating around a central concept.—
Zadie Smith,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Along with users telling her to appreciate every second, others took a moment to admire the pure joy radiating from Luna and her family.—
Natalia Senanayake,
PEOPLE,
14 Sep. 2025
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Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok has also noted the recent graduate unemployment rate is diverging for men and women.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
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Some state public health officials have decided to make their own vaccine recommendations, diverging from the CDC for the first time in its 80-year history.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Branching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/branching. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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