as in parting
to go or move in different directions from a central point
the vine branched out as it climbed the trellis
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The 50-year-old Dutchman had been without a club since parting company with Turkish outfit Besiktas last November.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025 -
Of course, there was still the series' finale to look forward to and consider — at least that might leave audiences with a blissful, parting image of Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Thurman, 55, filed for divorce from Hawke in 2004, after separating the year before.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Joy and grief, there’s no separating the two, period.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
30 Aug. 2025
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Adversaries appear as competing bids, regulatory hurdles or stakeholders with diverging agendas.—
Jessica Billingsley,
Rolling Stone,
2 Sep. 2025
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The Morgan Stanley strategists attributed the diverging paths for the economy and the market to the varying impacts that the specific policy changes have had on different sectors of the market, and those segments’ differently weighted share of the total S & P 500 market capitalization.—
Brian Evans,
CNBC,
23 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The solution is to rejuvenate your plants every two to three years by digging and dividing the clump.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Sep. 2025
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The main way to do that is by selling their tickets in virtually every state, rather than dividing up the country into different competing territories.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
3 Sep. 2025
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Schools, churches, small shops that survived the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed over 300,000 are now a pile of rubble, part of the apocalyptic landscape left behind by the retreating forces that control almost all of Haiti’s capital.—
Johnny Fils-Aimé,
Miami Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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Water is rapidly replacing ice along the coastal plain of southeastern Alaska, where glaciers are thinning and retreating, with meltwater forming lakes off of their fronts, NASA says.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Branching (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/branching%20%28out%29. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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