fractionalize

Definition of fractionalizenext

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Recent Examples of fractionalize The trend toward fractional trading also comes at a time when stock splits—when companies with high share prices fractionalize shares to more affordable levels—have fallen out of favor (Apple is one outlier, having split its stock several times). Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 2 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionalize
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
  • In practice, CVs are being used across a market that has become increasingly bifurcated.
    Sunaina Sinha Haldea, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Since then, the consumer economy has only become more bifurcated.
    Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Also on Wednesday, a split LCRA Board of Directors advanced an update to the authority’s Water Management Plan, which dictates how water from Lakes Travis and Buchanan is divided between city water utilities like Austin Water and coastal rice farmers downstream.
    Alex Driggars, Austin American Statesman, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Once dark and divided into too many small spaces, this Victorian house has benefited from a careful redesign entrusted to the duo at Penrose Tilbury.
    Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 17 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Then came waves of railroad workers—Scandinavian, Irish, especially—renting rooms in an ever-altering house, subdivided into two units, then three; even the house number changed..
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The original 37-acre La Questa Vineyard, subdivided into three parcels, survived its ravages.
    Laura Ness, Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Karaban almost had a costly turnover on an inbound play with 14 seconds left, but the Huskies fouled up three and Mulready split his free throw attempts, setting up the game-clinching freebies from the Huskies’ captain.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Although the servicing stop for the California Zephyr is too short to explore beyond the platform, Denver is a great overnight choice for passengers splitting up the 43-hour journey.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • TikToks promising secret loopholes, Reddit threads dissecting deductions and content creators insisting ways to outsmart the IRS.
    Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Still, loudspeakers playing crowd noise isn’t the same as knowing millions of strangers will dissect your performance within minutes.
    Amy Cuddy, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • But Stevens said the treatment patients take will segment according to the other health conditions a person has on top of obesity, such as fatty liver disease, chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease.
    Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Viral trends felt collective rather than segmented by algorithmic feeds.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2026

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“Fractionalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionalize. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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