fractionating

verb

present participle of fractionate
as in separating

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionating
  1. separating
  2. dividing
  3. splitting
  4. dissecting
  5. cleaving
  6. bifurcating
  7. dissociating
  8. decoupling
Verb
  • With less than a point separating the top five competitors, the all-around race quickly heated up.
    — Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The two spacecraft rode to Mars together, with the lander separating from the orbiter ahead of its landing on the Red Planet.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of separating
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  • The bill would create a federal rulebook for issuing, trading and holding digital assets, dividing oversight between the SEC and CFTC, Bambysheva writes.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Mathon downsized that proposal, and in late June asked to rezone just 98 acres for multifamily development, while dividing the rest of the acreage — much of it with wetlands — between traditional housing and industrial park zones.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of dividing
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  • The rulings wiped out the dreams of thousands of Italian descendants who had been hoping to achieve citizenship, derailing life plans and splitting families apart.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • This will be a preview of what sort of Republicans are winning in this seats drawn away from Democrats; Tennessee Republicans will test that on their new map two days later, after splitting up the city of Memphis.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of splitting
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  • Instead of dissecting possible outcomes or making last-minute adjustments, Kerr and co were at the warm-up track.
    — Liam Tharme, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • While the team had been reveling in its temporary 2-0 lead, the referee team had been dissecting what happened moments before the ball hit the back of the net.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
Definition of dissecting
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  • By the time Lincoln was elected president in 1860, slavery was already cleaving the country.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Something like cleaving a payroll system in three has to be done flawlessly, for example, so staff still get paid on time.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 12 June 2026
Definition of cleaving
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  • At the same time, the enterprise AI market is bifurcating.
    — Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Levanon’s reading of the labor data is that the economy is bifurcating in a specific and underreported way.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 May 2026
Definition of bifurcating
Verb
  • There was crying, complaining, dissociating and even laughing on those couches.
    — Wendy C. Ortiz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
Definition of dissociating
Verb
  • By decoupling the supply chain at these nodes, a company prevents the bullwhip effect.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Canada is diversifying its partnerships but not decoupling.
    — Andrew Latham, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
Definition of decoupling
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