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fractionated 1 of 2

adjective

as in divided

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fractionated

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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionated
  1. divided
  2. cleaved
  3. split
  4. dissected
  5. separated
  6. bifurcated
  7. dissociated
  8. divorced
Adjective
  • That power to bring people together is at the heart of what makes the Contest so special, and is even more important now in an increasingly difficult and divided world.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Their already fractured opposition has become even more divided in the country’s south, particularly after a Saudi rift with the United Arab Emirates in late 2025 led the latter to withdraw its support for anti-Houthi forces in the south altogether.
    — Mahad D. Darar, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 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
  • Mattress brands will follow with more aggressive marketing of split-firmness and split-climate systems.
    — Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Earlier, board directors had an unusual split vote on whether to continue Metra’s practice of rotating board chairs every four years between residents of Cook County and the five Collar Counties.
    — Marni Pyke, Chicago Tribune, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of split
Verb
  • Holmes is no stranger to having her life and her persona as a supposedly brilliant female tech wunderkind dissected by others.
    — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Most of that gap came via the right arm of sophomore quarterback Ford Green, who dissected the Chargers, completing 14 of 18 passes for 257 yards and four touchdowns.
    — Joel Beers, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of dissected
Verb
  • The thought of being separated from his children haunted Cazares.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • After launch, its booster separated, its wings unfolded, and a small turbofan powered it through sustained low-altitude flight.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of separated
Verb
  • The screen is sometimes bifurcated between Carter’s livestream, which itself gets clogged with fan comments and emojis, and people watching it in Japan.
    — William Earl, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
  • 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
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
  • Her parents divorced early and shared custody across film and TV sets in Colorado and California and beyond, with Dakota and a nanny and a tutor and her half brother running between them.
    — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Charles and Diana divorced in 1996, a year before Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris at the age of 36.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of divorced

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“Fractionated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionated. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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