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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionating
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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
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How to make sense of the damage to Iran's cultural legacy is dividing Iranians.—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
21 Mar. 2026
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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
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These days, not even war can penetrate the partisan gap splitting the country.—
Joe Garofoli,
San Francisco Chronicle,
17 Mar. 2026
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That support has turned heads and become a bit of a tug-of-war in Chicago politics, with some worrying about splitting the African-American vote given both Stratton and Kelly are Black.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
17 Mar. 2026
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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
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Bierman cleverly — and with some humor — shows these characters dissecting their features with dissatisfaction and anxiety.—
Michael Zwiebach,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 Mar. 2026
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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
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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
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The lens surface gradually transitions in prescription strength, with no lines bifurcating your vision.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Prediction markets and trading algorithms then lean on the outputs of those models, further decoupling their bets from any underlying investment in truth.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
9 Mar. 2026
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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
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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
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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 25 Mar. 2026.
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