fractionalizing

verb

present participle of fractionalize
as in dissecting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionalizing
  1. dissecting
  2. splitting
  3. dividing
  4. bisecting
  5. bifurcating
  6. resolving
  7. cleaving
  8. breaking up
Verb
  • Instead of dissecting possible outcomes or making last-minute adjustments, Kerr and co were at the warm-up track.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • While the team had been reveling in its temporary 2-0 lead, the referee team had been dissecting what happened moments before the ball hit the back of the net.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
Definition of dissecting
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  • That, of course, gives the company a much larger share of the pie, not splitting revenue with retail and not needing to produce physical objects.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • The Dodgers, who have the best record in the majors at 63-37, take the series win after splitting a Sunday doubleheader following a Saturday rainout.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of splitting
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  • The risk appears when new stores begin dividing existing demand rather than creating it.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Across the globe, populist leaders and fundamentalist factions attempt to consolidate power by dividing populations and silencing dissent.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 July 2026
Definition of dividing
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  • For the quintessential Glacier National Park visit, take the Going-to-the-Sun Road for 50 miles of stunning vistas, bisecting the east and west sides of the park.
    — Giovanna Caravetta, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Valley Fair, located on Stevens Creek Boulevard, sits both in San Jose and Santa Clara, with the city border bisecting the property.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
Definition of bisecting
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  • At the same time, the enterprise AI market is bifurcating.
    — Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Levanon’s reading of the labor data is that the economy is bifurcating in a specific and underreported way.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 May 2026
Definition of bifurcating
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  • But Morrison wouldn’t have landed on Moondance or Mystic without first resolving a contract problem.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • A number of therapies centered on resolving moral injury have emerged in recent years.
    — Amy S. Badura-Brack, The Conversation, 30 July 2026
Definition of resolving
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  • By the time Lincoln was elected president in 1860, slavery was already cleaving the country.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Something like cleaving a payroll system in three has to be done flawlessly, for example, so staff still get paid on time.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 12 June 2026
Definition of cleaving
Verb
  • At another MetroLoft project, 25 Water Street, Berman and a co-developer had taken a radical approach to breaking up the interior space of a hulking building that once housed offices belonging to JPMorgan Chase.
    — Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
  • Yannick Bright started the sequence breaking up a Fire run at midfield.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026
Definition of breaking up
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