dichotomizes

present tense third-person singular of dichotomize

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Verb
  • Bill of the Month is a crowdsourced investigation by KFF Health News and The Washington Post’s Well+Being that dissects and explains medical bills.
    Katheryn Houghton, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • After outlining that corrupt deal, Du Bois dissects how scholarship sympathetic to the northern interests then rewrote Reconstruction’s history, turning the period into a fable of failure while caricaturing Black political leadership and widespread democratic participation.
    Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • On August 20, Israel approved the construction of the controversial E1 settlement that effectively bisects the West Bank; Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich explicitly framed the move as a response to calls for Palestinian statehood.
    SHIRA EFRON, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Witnesses said Israeli troops opened fire on crowds in the Netzarim Corridor, an Israeli military zone that bisects Gaza.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The tension quickly splits the group.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Hydrogen splits at the anode into protons and electrons.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • While Sam begins hallucinating people as puppets, Justin breaks up with him.
    Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Belly, devastated by the betrayal, slaps Jeremiah and breaks up with him.
    Alexandra Hurtado, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Analysts say this has pulled the faith’s center of gravity toward the more conservative global south, deepening divides with the West’s more liberal outlook.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Attached to each loop is a polymerase enzyme, which serves a critical function every time a cell divides.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Dichotomizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dichotomizes. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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