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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
  • Musk married Justine in 2000, and the couple had six children together before separating in 2008.
    — Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Their relationship is tested by family pressure, class differences and the economic and cultural realities separating their lives in France and India.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of separating
Verb
  • With three points, three cuts can be made, thus dividing the surface into four.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
  • In its place arose far-right movements in Western Europe and North America dedicated to dividing the world into racial and cultural blocs, divisions often defended in the language of the struggle against terrorism and Islam.
    — Faisal Devji, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of dividing
Verb
  • The poll finds that Bodnar and Bankhead are splitting the Democratic vote, 49% to 43% respectively.
    — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The two women start to hang out again like college pals, gossiping and hip-hip dancing and — always – splitting a bottle of white wine.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of splitting
Verb
  • The talk may be the stuff of an interesting dinner party, ending with a pleasant Italian dessert, but dissecting every uneven course that arrives doesn’t result in a satisfying meal, especially for the brain.
    — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Stan Wars, co-hosted by Ian Slater (H3) and Olivia Lopes (H3, Rodiculous Pod), digs into the big pop culture debates of our time, dissecting the various arguments within the entertainment world to determine who is right and who is wrong.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of dissecting
Verb
  • It can be made cleanly by cleaving the hydrogen out of water using clean electricity.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Imagine a termite carving a path like a jumbled ball of string through a tree trunk, instead of an axe cleaving a single vector.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Aug. 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
  • With other phones, even something simple like replacing an aging battery often requires melting adhesive, prying apart fragile glass panels, and decoupling cables.
    — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2026
  • By decoupling the supply chain at these nodes, a company prevents the bullwhip effect.
    — Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of decoupling
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