fractionated 1 of 2

fractionated

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verb

past tense of fractionate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionated
Adjective
  • The civilian board that monitors the Sheriff’s Office and Probation Department will see its oversight authority expanded to include health care workers in cases of in-custody deaths, following a divided vote Tuesday by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The gamble backfired and his centrist bloc lost seats to the far right and far left, leaving France with a divided National Assembly and effectively ungovernable.
    Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The evenly split council, with no tie-breaking vote, has revealed a lack of leadership at City Hall, as two hearings ended in deadlock.
    Veronica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The markets bind The economic risks are unusually split.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The first thing visitors approaching Quincy, Washington see is dry rolling hills, cleaved by the Columbia River.
    Monica Nickelsburg, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The mudslide cleaved through Dharali village, burying some houses.
    Reuters, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The films are succinctly dissected, too.
    Michael Taube, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That’s partly why next week’s Fed policy meeting will be even more closely dissected than usual.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • An explosion separated the Bell’s tail boom, main rotor, mast and transmission and sent the fuselage crashing into the ground.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
  • As before, the Humane Editor uses a large central workspace subdivided into individual documents, here separated by backtick characters.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These goals may appear bifurcated, but they will become increasingly intertwined in the years ahead.
    GARY ROUGHEAD, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
  • It’s also oddly bifurcated into two noticeably chunks, with the first half focusing on Hank and Yvonne’s tender but touchy, highly tectchy relationship and the second half leaning into the gonzo forward momentum of a get-the-dough crime flick.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But they are often dissociated from their emotions, struggling with indecision, or living in a constant state of low-level overwhelm.
    Ashleigh N. DeLuca, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The pair divorced in November 2024 — news that Stewart confirmed on Chattin' with Chelsea in September 2025.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The pair tied the knot in 1958 and later divorced.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Fractionated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionated. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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