dichotomization

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Noun
  • American astronauts had not splashed down in the ocean since December 1972 when the crew of Apollo 17 came home amid waning interest in exploring the moon, and polarization over the Vietnam War.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • To look at the leftover glow from the Big Bang, at the spectrum of temperature fluctuations (and also at the polarization) imprinted when neutral atoms first formed and the Universe became transparent to radiation.
    Big Think, Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Viva’s owner, Grupo IAMSA, also operates a giant bus network and was fined in an antitrust investigation for monopolistic practices related to price manipulation and route segmentation in 2022.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The system begins by separating objects from the background using semantic segmentation.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Authorities located a body in the front trunk of the Tesla that was in a state of decomposition, LAPD sources said.
    Alex Stone, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Sources said that due to the advanced state of decomposition, the deceased died some time ago.
    Joe Holden, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That diffusion will take time — a crucial point missing from most of the current debate.
    Omar Abbosh, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Trump himself appeared to acknowledge a diffusion of power in Iran as a result of the American-Israeli assassination campaign.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The parcel’s location is adjacent to the Liberty Lakes subdivision, and not consistent with the village’s master comprehensive land use plan, although under county jurisdiction.
    Greg Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • As an existing subdivision — 99% of it vacant — Azure Vista offered hundreds of buildable vacant lots populated only by red ants, quail and Groucho Marx bugs.
    Eric DuVall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Goldman notes that the three-month realized pairwise correlation among the major AI hyperscalers—Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle—has fallen sharply, with rising dispersion among the dominant names.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Standard risk and exclusion zone guidelines for LNG sites generally extend far beyond 400 feet, precisely because in the event of a release, thermal radiation, vapor dispersion or flash fires could affect areas well outside facility boundaries.
    Joel McPherson, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The atomization of society begins with your morning coffee.
    Jakub Grygiel, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Neoliberalism wants atomization, managing our own human capital.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
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“Dichotomization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dichotomization. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.

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