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fractionalized

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verb

past tense of fractionalize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionalized
Adjective
  • Rather than a small drawer or tray, the divided top of West Elm’s storage coffee table rotates to reveal an empty storage cavity to fill with throw blankets, books, or video game controllers.
    Rachel Fletcher, Architectural Digest, 19 June 2026
  • As Americans remain divided on the memorandum of understanding ending the war in Iran, star athletes who represent two of the countries most impacted by the deal have shared their thoughts.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026
Verb
  • However, the longer-term consequences could be more profound and bifurcated, a Reuters columnist argued, with governments increasing their support for electrification and renewables, as well as ramping up purchases of coal to reduce reliance on Middle East transit routes.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 17 June 2026
  • In this scenario, a member's economic interest and other interests (voting rights and the like) would be carefully bifurcated, with the economic interest being transferrable and the other interests being non-transferrable.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Adjective
  • His work deepened and developed under the responsiveness of the academy and a larger and not-yet-balkanized reading public.
    Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Angry, balkanized, hostile communities with shattered trust in American institutions — from courts to free elections — undermine the social capital needed for free enterprise to prosper.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • After a 1980s split with Fidel Castro cost him the Interior Ministry, Valdés returned to power in the 2000s, overseeing telecommunications, serving as vice president and helping recover Che Guevara’s remains.
    Andrea Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026
  • The delays were split nearly evenly, affecting 332 flights departing the Denver airport and 287 flights arriving, according to FlightAware.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • For years, Seattle’s waterfront was isolated and written off as a tourist trap thanks to a double-decker highway that cleaved it from the rest of the city.
    Allecia Vermillion, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • Trunks were cleaved down the center.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In the month since her Netflix debut, viewers have dissected everything about the now 21-year-old Shirilla, who is currently serving two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life in prison—her first parole hearing is scheduled for September 2037.
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 18 June 2026
  • Still, New York kept chipping, chipping away, before the last two and a half minutes of a game that will be savored, dissected, and, take it to the bank, the subject of books and documentaries.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 14 June 2026
Verb
  • So even if disconnected from headquarters, a brigade can still use the system.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 June 2026
  • Carbon offsets, by contrast, can be difficult to verify and are often disconnected from local conditions.
    Patricia J. Kissinger, STAT, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • As the aircraft approached Atlantic City, a portion of one of the main rotor blades separated, the NTSB report showed, tearing the transmission and rotor apart and sending the helicopter crashing onto the Garden State Parkway.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
  • Watching Bryce Dettloff and Trinity Tatum pine for each other while separated by Casa Amor and realize their feelings for each other while unable to talk was sincerely romantic.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 24 June 2026
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“Fractionalized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionalized. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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