as in splits
to set or force apart
in your head you need to divorce your wishes and fantasies from the realities of the world as it is
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Recent Examples of divorces
Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
McEntire played Reba Hart, a divorced mom who tries to keep her family together after her husband divorces her for his dental hygienist.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for divorces
Noun
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As orbital launches and other space activities have increased, so have the fragments produced by collisions, accidental breakups, spent rocket stages, and more.—
Humberto Basilio,
Scientific American,
7 Nov. 2025
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The true freshman defensive back paces the Orange’s secondary with eight pass breakups.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Further encouraging campers to stay outdoors, the Walkabout splits those two entry doors with an outdoor cooking station.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Nov. 2025
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Continuing on, the RichTok creator addressed how the couple splits their finances.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Food apartheid in Metcalfe Park Census data show how sharply the food access crisis divides Milwaukee.—
April Quevedo,
jsonline.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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What divides him from Burton is that Hopkins, by a miracle, summoned the clarity to renounce his own destruction.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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But aggregate consumer spending masks schisms below the surface.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
2 Oct. 2025
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This brings us to the differences between the characters, which point to pivotal schisms between Anderson and Pynchon as storytellers.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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That willingness to embrace the unknown, Rogier said, often separates those who reach the top from those who plateau along the way.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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First stage booster to attempt landing After the upper stage separates from the booster, Blue Origin will once again attempt to land the first stage on a drone ship, named Jacklyn, several hundred miles offshore in the Atlantic.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Alberta’s original Nordic spa disconnects bathers from technology while connecting them to the great outdoors.—
Lisa Kadane,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Nov. 2025
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Might be the same WiFi issue, but CarPlay constantly disconnects and music often times has micro skips.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
23 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Only the Earth's brittle crust and descending cool slabs of tectonic plates can store and release elastic energy through fault ruptures.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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What happens if a brain aneurysm ruptures?—
Kaan Ozcan,
NBC news,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Then make a 45-degree cut from the bed towards the first cut to form a trench that severs the root system of the nearby grass.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
28 Sep. 2025
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However, this balance is unexpectedly shattered when a sudden rupture severs those connections, scattering their remnant powers across the land in the form of Anima.—
David Jagneaux,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Divorces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divorces. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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