fractionating

Definition of fractionatingnext
present participle of fractionate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionating
Verb
  • Kinks are critical in determining where a material deforms, appearing in situations such as metals bending permanently or DNA strands separating.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The hard part is separating the rare earths from the rock, and then from each other.
    Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • How to make sense of the damage to Iran's cultural legacy is dividing Iranians.
    Emily Feng, NPR, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Soon, there could be military boots on the ground crossing into the Islamic Republic of Iran from this terrain of fertile valleys, deep gorges and ancient Mesopotamian trade routes perched below the mountainous border dividing Iraq and Iran.
    Younes Mohammad, USA Today, 15 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Consider both carefully, then, before getting started, and explore the pros and cons of splitting your funds between both to best determine your next step.
    Matt Richardson, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The map’s boundaries slice through Kansas City, splitting the city’s voters into three Republican-leaning districts in the hopes of pushing Cleaver out of office.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • EntertainmentPulse dedicated a full session to the format, with speakers from Chinese companies including DataEye, Mansen Culture Media and Xiaowu Brothers dissecting both the production economics and the business models driving expansion.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Bierman cleverly — and with some humor — shows these characters dissecting their features with dissatisfaction and anxiety.
    Michael Zwiebach, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • And of course, from a more skeptical perspective, the whole project could be described as cleaving close to the wisdom of the strippers in Gypsy.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This also happens at a moment where the venture capital goalposts are moving—the industry is bifurcating into asset managers and smaller shops, while politics is becoming an increasingly complicated flashpoint.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The lens surface gradually transitions in prescription strength, with no lines bifurcating your vision.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the 1970s, once President Richard Nixon ended Bretton Woods by decoupling the dollar from gold, that privilege was revived in oil and debt, requiring every country on Earth to accumulate dollars simply to buy oil, and then reinvest those dollars back into American debt.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The company expects to continue decoupling revenue growth from emissions, aiming to reduce its carbon footprint even as sales expand.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 19 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The emails ask the user to take some kind of action, such as disconnecting or locking their vault.
    James Peckham, PC Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
  • House Bill 1002 offers multiple solutions, including automatically placing residential ratepayers on budget billing and prohibiting utilities from disconnecting low-income customers’ services during periods with extreme heat warnings.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2026
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“Fractionating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionating. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.

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