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verb

past tense of segment

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Recent Examples of segmented
Adjective
At the time, professional wrestling was a segmented, regional business. Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 24 July 2025 The shoe’s segmented sole, reflective Swoosh and mesh-panel build emphasized technical performance. Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 23 July 2025 Separated into two segments, including a broad carapace at the front of its body and a segmented trunk and tail at the back, the fossil species was traditionally thought to be an ancestor of the horseshoe crab today. Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2025 Meanwhile, work has become more precarious, less unionized, more segmented and less geographically stable. Nathan Meyers, The Conversation, 11 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for segmented
Recent Examples of Synonyms for segmented
Adjective
  • The work, led by Professor Zijian Li, confirms that the synergistic effect of K+ and C3N4 co-intercalation significantly reduces the electrostatic interaction between Zn2+ and the [VOn] layer, improves the specific capacity and cycling stability.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Get specific prompts to optimize emails, memos and presentations for tone, context and audience.
    Renée Onque, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, he is limited to a DH spot due to his limited mobility, which stops him from playing in the corner outfield.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Although outdoor tests have begun, long-term reliability data remain limited.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • America’s economy has been increasingly bifurcated for quite some time – with the exception of a few years following the pandemic.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Looking ahead, Rees said the North American consumer is bifurcated, with highly affluent shoppers in great financial shape and a large portion of customers at the lower end who are super cautious about their spending and buying closer to need.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And that’s selective prosecution.
    Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • With more product releases than ever and increasingly selective consumers, there are far fewer opportunities for $1,000-plus flips from weekly shoe releases.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • These passages reflect how divided the planet once was, how easily myths about the United States could become rooted in other countries.
    Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Or that, even worse, it would be arbitrarily divided into episodes in order to inflate the view count and/or pander to short attention spans (Eywa wept).
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • But Jalon Daniels’ Hail Mary pass from KU’s 47 on the final play of the game fell incomplete.
    Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The officials were fooled, ruling it incomplete.
    The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Wallen bowing out of contention might have made that a partial fait accompli, yet Megan Moroney, Ella Langley and Zach Top — all of whom have a major look going into this month’s CMA Awards — were all considered major contenders for the best new artist category.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Below is a partial list of some of the key Grammy categories.
    Melonee Hurt, Nashville Tennessean, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Half of the figurine is dissected to show how Buddy is truly born in indigo.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Douglas dissected the testimony from the school staffers and their actions the day of the shooting and how information was conveyed to the administrator.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Segmented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segmented. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.

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