as in to bifurcate
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Recent Examples of dichotomize
Lyle: What was really important for us with Lottie is that there’s a tendency to want to dichotomize characters in television and film into protagonists and antagonists, or heroes and villains.
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Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
Worse examples: resystematize, transparentize, essentialize, rightsize, dichotomize.
—Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 10 Oct. 2020
Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
Worse examples: resystematize, transparentize, essentialize, rightsize, dichotomize.
—Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 10 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dichotomize
Verb
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While designing the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, in the 1990s, the architect would sit by the river that bifurcates the city, looking at different metal treatments.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
6 Dec. 2025
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This also happens at a moment where the venture capital goalposts are moving—the industry is bifurcating into asset managers and smaller shops, while politics is becoming an increasingly complicated flashpoint.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Qianlong took a page from the design of private gardens in southern China to make the layout more compact, and divided the site into four connected courtyards, two of which are currently open to the public, from south to north.—
Fred He,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Engineers divide conventional aircraft into three main lightning zones.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Nov. 2025
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Half of the figurine is dissected to show how Buddy is truly born in indigo.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Nov. 2025
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Douglas dissected the testimony from the school staffers and their actions the day of the shooting and how information was conveyed to the administrator.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
5 Nov. 2025
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These diagrams break sentences down into noun phrases and verb phrases and then further subdivide them into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions and so forth.—
Steve Nadis,
Quanta Magazine,
31 Oct. 2025
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His family reportedly subdivided and then sold off the entire property, including its farmlands, for $4.5 million in 2013.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
6 Oct. 2025
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After it was collected, it was then segmented by state and city, and an index was created to rank the most and least Christmassy states and cities in America.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
20 Dec. 2025
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The work is segmented, each employee tasked with one of 180 watchmaking crafts.—
Jon Wertheim,
CBS News,
8 Dec. 2025
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The researchers used a single high radiation dose, whereas human treatments are usually fractionated – that is, given in smaller doses over time.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Oct. 2025
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Dent corn is fractionated into its various elements (starch, protein/germ, oil and moisture).—
WWD,
WWD,
16 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Arsenal’s first half in the 4-1 home win against Aston Villa a week ago — when the visitors continuously broke through the middle of the pitch — was the perfect example of what happens when their partnership is split up, in this case by Rice’s knee injury.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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In the aftermath, Venezuelan society became further split between the wealthy, who wanted to work with the US, and the working class, who sought autonomy from the US.—
James Trapani,
Fortune,
6 Jan. 2026
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Successfully translating the songs and script of a beloved musical onto film is no easy feat, but the task was made even more challenging from Chu and his team when it was decided to bisect the story into two separate parts.—
Kristin Robinson,
Billboard,
6 Nov. 2025
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Perhaps the most intriguing thing shown here are the tracks bisecting Park Street.—
Randy Mason,
Kansas City Star,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Dichotomize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dichotomize. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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