dismemberments

Definition of dismembermentsnext
plural of dismemberment

Example Sentences

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Noun
  • The highway department will strategically apply salt to intersections, hills, bridges and curbs in subdivisions, but aim for conserving on other stretches of subdivision roads.
    Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
  • According to the city’s ordinances, streets in subdivisions have to be extended for other subdivision development.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco has made a career of rescuing history from the cleavages of memory.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Intelligence agencies in the United States and other Western countries closely follow these cleavages, of course, and can sometimes recruit the disaffected or the ambitious to provide insider information.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Dixon produced 20 tackles and six pass breakups in his lone campaign with the Tar Heels.
    Mike Kaye March 24, Charlotte Observer, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The Florida native was fourth on the team with 56 tackles as well as four pass breakups and two interceptions.
    Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Are these all mathematically proper bifurcations?
    Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The history of religion, with its thousands of schisms and reformations, is full of pilgrims who, rather than discard their relationship with their sacred text, have found purpose, clarity, and community through defiance.
    Séamas O'Reilly, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Ferrante’s portrait of these schisms is exquisite, detailing all the jealousies and insecurities that can thrive in a friendship between two bright ambitious women.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The path from five to three involves contract splits, criminal convictions, a Netflix acting turn, and a surprise collaboration that reignited fan fervor in late 2024.
    Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Do those splits hold, and who really is right for whom?
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The footage showed tubes with ruptures and other damaged structures that used to be inside the pressure vessel, which originally was enclosed.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The same physics in slip pulses are seen during earthquakes, when tectonic faults produce high-speed ruptures that sometimes move faster than the speed of sound.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • There could be more dissolutions and consolidations in the future.
    Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The drama that sometimes follows their dissolutions speaks to a broader uncertainty in the air about how gay couples should be.
    Paul McAdory, Them., 9 Dec. 2025
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“Dismemberments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dismemberments. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.

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