sectioned

past tense of section

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Verb
  • Teller took to heart the classic Greek playwright Aristophanes’ myth of love — that humans were born as a fusion of two bodies and later separated as punishment from the gods, only to spend their lives looking — and longing — for their other half.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Andrew and Fergie married in 1986, separated in 1992, and divorced in 1996, but the two have remained close.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The killer slit Catherine's throat with a razor so severely that her head was nearly severed before striking them both with an axe, per the Times-Picayune.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The Brockermeyer family is one of the most prominent football names in the history of Fort Worth, but its connection to TCU was severed over a few hundred thousand bucks.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With her hair parted down the middle, Gerber donned tight waves; the circles falling inward over her shoulders.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Arianna, though, bore the extra weight of being parted from her own child.
    Natalia Paradies, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If empowered to retain the data that shows who is engaging with them as a song, an event or a community, artists could unify what is now fragmented across multiple sources.
    Geoff Robins, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Perhaps even the idea of an upscale magazine in the mold of Vanity Fair is simply less meaningful in a contemporary media landscape where celebrities constantly churn out their own content and popular culture is fragmented across a landscape of mid-sized creators.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
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“Sectioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sectioned. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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