fractionalizing

Definition of fractionalizingnext
present participle of fractionalize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionalizing
Verb
  • Their greatest pleasure in life is seeing their favorite band play live — grooving out, going nuts, and dissecting every second afterward.
    David Manheim, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026
  • 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
Verb
  • For the past three seasons, the Twins have been committed to splitting the workload between Jeffers and Christian Vázquez evenly, alternating between the two to keep each fresh.
    Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The University of Michigan team addressed the longstanding challenge of inefficient photocatalysts when splitting water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen, offering a cleaner alternative to fossil fuel-dependent methods.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 23 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • These perennials live for a long time, and dividing them provides more plants every few years so expanding your garden won't even cost much.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
  • People have a habit of dividing life into segments.
    Shayla Love, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • This also happens at a moment where the venture capital goalposts are moving—the industry is bifurcating into asset managers and smaller shops, while politics is becoming an increasingly complicated flashpoint.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The lens surface gradually transitions in prescription strength, with no lines bifurcating your vision.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Earlier theoretical work showed that combining spatial mode sorting with long-baseline interferometry could reach the true quantum limit for resolving two stars.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Kushner first reemerged on the scene in October to help Witkoff broker the Gaza-Israel peace deal, which was lauded but has made little progress yet toward resolving the underlying obstacles to peace.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • And of course, from a more skeptical perspective, the whole project could be described as cleaving close to the wisdom of the strippers in Gypsy.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But the bigger fiction was that this case could or should result in a court order breaking up Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
    Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 23 Feb. 2026
  • He’s best known for breaking up that colossus, which is spurring speculation that PayPal’s board intends to sell off segments of the firm’s business.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
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“Fractionalizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionalizing. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.

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