splitting (up)

verb

Definition of splitting (up)next
present participle of split (up)
as in breaking up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for splitting (up)
  1. breaking up
  2. isolating
  3. segregating
  4. separating
  5. parting
Verb
  • A day later, after breaking up with Niemiec, the victim went to Niemiec’s apartment with a friend to retrieve her things, according to the report.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026
  • There’s nothing like breaking up a hot day with a matcha run.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 6 July 2026
Definition of breaking up
Verb
  • It’s designed to focus on facial features, isolating every muscle.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
  • According to his lawsuit, Lines meanwhile lost sleep, and began isolating from his friends and family.
    — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 2 July 2026
Definition of isolating
Verb
  • The organizers refused to stop at cities that insisted on segregating crowds.
    — Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
  • Federal prosecutors discovered that the campaign filings showed a pattern of segregating the kickbacks from the district attorney’s staff in a later campaign disclosure hoping nobody would follow up.
    — John O’Hara, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026
Definition of segregating
Verb
  • First, structure prompts by separating roles, rules, data, and tasks into distinct sections for clarity.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • His skin fell off, the membranes separating his organs dissolved, his bones turned to mush, and his head rolled away.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Definition of separating
Verb
  • The house sits in a landscape of almost unimaginable beauty, cradled in the warm embrace of its own green valley, dramatic hills rising steeply on all sides but parting ahead to reveal distant fields.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 July 2026
  • But the mom’s parting gift, a diary, provides opaque glimpses into her life with Alfonso in the mid-1980s.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
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“Splitting (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splitting%20%28up%29. Accessed 13 Jul. 2026.

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