dichotomize

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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. 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
  • Consumers are also increasingly bifurcated.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Braude described Gaza’s reality as bifurcated.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Senate Republicans are trying to divide Democrats on Thursday with a vote that would pay government workers deemed essential who are working without pay during the shutdown.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In the trailer, Whitney drops the bomb that she is set to start her own MomTok, as the group continues to be divided.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tallulah’s career was also a vehicle to dissect what makes young people gravitate to — and hate — each other.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
  • On this week’s Nashville Now, Hale and Halestorm guitarist Joe Hottinger breaks down Nashville’s vital rock scene, dissect the making of Everest, and makes at least one Spinal Tap reference.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • The fields near where her grandfather grew up are now subdivided into small plots full of houses.
    Janet W. Lee, NPR, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The problem can be further segmented into specific problematic orbits, according to Darren McKnight, senior technical fellow at LeoLabs, which performs high-resolution debris tracking for private clients and government agencies.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The base can be flipped over and the underside is segmented to carry cupcakes more securely or use as a serving dish.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Dent corn is fractionated into its various elements (starch, protein/germ, oil and moisture).
    WWD, WWD, 16 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Atlanta scored first on a 38-yard field goal from Parker Romo, but that came after Huff and Sam Okuayinonu split a third-down sack to minimize a 19-play, 10 ½-minute drive.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Bigger than Alaska and Texas combined, West Antarctica is split from the eastern half of the continent by the Transantarctic Mountains, whose peaks are buried to their chins in ice.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Perhaps the most intriguing thing shown here are the tracks bisecting Park Street.
    Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Rancho Cordova was shaped in part by Folsom Boulevard, which bisects the densest section of the city and served, historically, as a highway stretching northeast from downtown Sacramento, said City Councilmember Linda Budge.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Dichotomize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dichotomize. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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