FRACTIONATED Synonyms: 93 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in divided

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verb

past tense of fractionate

as in subdivided

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Recent Examples of fractionated

Adjective

To convey those sensory elements, the perfume house began by marrying cherry and davana, then leaned into fractionated patchouli oil and relied on black violet notes for their depth. — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026

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Adjective

Instead, the people most comfortable with science and numbers were also the most divided along cultural and political lines over climate risk.

— Jamil Wyne, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
Daza Olivas was placed under arrest and transported to Troop H where he was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs and driving the wrong way on a divided highway, according to state police.

— Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of divided

Verb

Near the end of the first century AD, in the highlands of northern Spain, the Roman governor, philosopher, and naturalist Pliny the Elder watched as mining cleaved a landscape.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
District 8 was cleaved from parts of Districts 1 and 4 and includes Hunter’s Creek, Lake Nona, Moss Park, Williamsburg and Wyndham Lakes.

— Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of cleaved

Adjective

Vitello didn’t rule out bringing Wilkinson back on Saturday, when the Giants play a split doubleheader against the Diamondbacks.

— Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
Other split-toe designs with smaller pockets can force the foot into a smaller space, aggravating hammertoes and neuromas.

— Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of split

Verb

The Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Massachusetts, is a notable example of an urban reversal of the 1950s and 1960s highway expansions that occurred across the United States that dissected many cities into sections and separated neighborhoods.

— Ashley Gardini, JSTOR Daily, 12 Aug. 2026
Zahavy dissected the process that went into Albert Einstein’s formulation of his General Relativity Theory, noting that the scientist’s thinking evolved through three phases – deduction, induction, and finally, abduction.

— Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of dissected

Verb

This caused the prehistoric Tethys Ocean, which once separated the supercontinents of Laurasia and Gondwana, to shrink.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
The researchers also had to build specialized rooftop facilities and integrate their optics, control systems, communications equipment, quantum sources, and detectors so that equipment separated by 21 kilometers could operate as one experiment.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of separated

Verb

Was the discursive thread accidental, or emblematic of the two poles the AI industry is now bifurcated between?

— Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
London said the rental market is bifurcated, with older apartment complexes generally fuller than newer ones.

— Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2026

Definition of bifurcated

Verb

This tadpole-like object is a clump of denser nebulosity that hasn't been completely photo-dissociated by the Trifid's radiation field yet.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Out the bottom, hypoaroused, includes being disengaged, numb, frozen, apathetic or even dissociated.

— Dr. Joel M. Rothaizer, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026

Definition of dissociated

Verb

The outlet alleged that after reuniting backstage at the 2020 Actor Awards (formerly known as the SAG Awards), the exes—who married in 2000 and divorced in 2005—began communicating regularly once again.

— Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 22 Aug. 2026
Harris said Milligan became a father figure to her after her parents divorced.

— Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

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