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fractionated

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verb

past tense of fractionate
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Adjective
  • The Mitsubishi then traveled across all lanes of Swope Parkway, a divided road, and hit two trees before coming to rest, according to the crash log.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2026
  • Key players Enzo Fernandez and Marc Cucurella have both criticised the club’s decision-making in interviews, while The Athletic has revealed the dressing room became divided after Maresca’s departure at the start of the year.
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 15 May 2026
Adjective
  • The actor, who has long split time between Montana and Florida, said his connection to the West runs far deeper than the screen.
    Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2026
  • In arguing for a split year’s sentence of prison time and residential drug treatment, Fleming’s attorney, Robert Dugdale, said his client’s cooperation in naming Sangha gave law enforcement officials a target of their investigation early on in the case.
    City News Service, Daily News, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • Trunks were cleaved down the center.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The two rows of buildings are cleaved down the middle by a pathway leading visitors toward the temple.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The affecting, uncanny sound design baked into Skeletrix’s work does well to uphold the perception that there is, in fact, a complex message to be dissected.
    Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 15 May 2026
  • When Baartman died, Cuvier dissected her body and exhibited its parts.
    Caroline Lillian Schopp, Artforum, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • In some cases, families were separated.
    Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • This incident also led to Eckert and Hellberg nearly coming to blows before being separated by the fourth official.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 13 May 2026
Verb
  • However, beneath the surface, Cramer said the market has become increasingly bifurcated, with investors piling into a narrow group of artificial intelligence winners while severely punishing companies that disappoint or simply fail to impress.
    Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 11 May 2026
  • Now we’re bifurcated, with roughly a third of our households not meeting self-sufficiency standards, and more than a third achieving wealth that was unimaginable a generation ago.
    Russell Hancock, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2026
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
Verb
  • The two divorced in 1982 but remained friendly.
    Jessica Booth, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
  • When Perry’s parents divorced, her mother, too arrogant to sustain a conventional job, resorted to other ways to keep the family afloat.
    Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
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“Fractionated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionated. Accessed 19 May. 2026.

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