fractionates

verb

present tense third-person singular of fractionate
as in bifurcates

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionates
  1. bifurcates
  2. cleaves
  3. separates
  4. splits
  5. dissects
  6. divides
  7. disassociates
  8. bisects
Verb
  • While designing the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, in the 1990s, the architect would sit by the river that bifurcates the city, looking at different metal treatments.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 6 Dec. 2025
  • For example, Highway 17 currently bifurcates a piece planners hope to lock in through Los Gatos.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 July 2021
Definition of bifurcates
Verb
  • Mantel cleaves instead to a felicitous simplicity, to constructions that achieve consonance with the period but stop short of mimicry.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Six oil and gas freighters were observed navigating on a route that cleaves close to Oman’s coast.
    — Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026
Definition of cleaves
Verb
  • Babcock separates McDavid and Draisaitl for much of the season at five-on-five, unless Bowman can find a driver from outside the roster.
    — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The details showed up on slouchy tailoring, shimmering dresses, metallic separates and playful accessories.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of separates
Verb
  • The design splits the building into four tenant spaces with onsite parking.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The map splits Kansas City into three Republican-leaning districts.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of splits
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  • Filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain crafts a taut supernatural drama that dissects the patriarchy hiding beneath the veneer of a fairytale wedding.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
  • This German production, predominantly shot in Ukraine, carefully dissects how a gender transition and Russia’s invasion converge on the love between Olya (Tania Myronyshena) and Oleh (Markus Bright).
    — Sonya Vseliubska, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of dissects
Verb
  • The king arbitrarily gives up his power and divides his kingdom among his children.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • There’s always at least one Love Island USA contestant who divides viewers, and for Season 8, that person was Melanie Moreno.
    — Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of divides
Verb
  • Gathered around the couch, in a spacious living room soundtracked by hushed jazz piano, her little sister disassociates with headphones while her pops casually chats to her stepmother; observing from a wheelchair is her 94-year-old great-grandmother.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2025
Definition of disassociates
Verb
  • Emergency services were sifting through the rubble of what used to be a nine-story building on the left bank of the Dnipro River that bisects the city as the sun rose and fires flared up around it.
    — Gleb Garanich, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • The dog is ahead and has stopped by the tree that bisects the diagonal; the girl with the bright red coat who seems to be paused behind him.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
Definition of bisects
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