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to set or force apart
during the cold war East and West Berlin were sundered by an impenetrable wall
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Recent Examples of sundered
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Nov. 2025
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
3 May 2026
The company has already sundered its businesses internally into two divisions ahead of a formal separation.
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Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
Others, like me, wake up in the middle of the night, their sleep sundered into two chunks.
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Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Comcast and Versant won’t be completely sundered after the split, as the USGA deal demonstrates.
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David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln, hoping to unite a sundered nation, issued a proclamation declaring Thanksgiving to be a national holiday.
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Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Nov. 2025
Verb
It was booked to fly on a Soyuz in 2022, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February of that year sundered the international partnership that led to the deal, putting the satellite in mothballs for a spell.
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Mike Wall,
Space.com,
3 May 2026
The company has already sundered its businesses internally into two divisions ahead of a formal separation.
—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
Others, like me, wake up in the middle of the night, their sleep sundered into two chunks.
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Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Comcast and Versant won’t be completely sundered after the split, as the USGA deal demonstrates.
—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sundered
Adjective
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According to the full plot description on Amazon, our protagonists have more to worry about than just severed fingers.
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The inciting incident for the new story comes after the principal of the high school receives a severed human finger in the mail, sending the parents into an uproar.
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Nigeria is largely divided between Christians in the south and Muslims in the north.
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The technology’s build-out, included planned pipelines, has sparked backlash in rural Louisiana communities and divided the state GOP.
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Type of equipment, efficiency rating, installation complexity and electrical upgrades can all impact the total cost of your ductless mini-split installation.
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The California State Legislature is set to vote this week on SB 1090, which, if approved, would temporarily block certain housing density laws that allow split lots and multi-unit construction on single-family Altadena lots.
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In a place where many homes lean into glass, driftwood tones and a conventional layout, this one sprawls like a resort, with sleeping quarters separated into individual pavilion-like structures.
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While first stage successfully separated, the second stage engine did not get it into orbit.
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Just look at Bindo’s neck, exposed by a parted curtain of hair, the feathery wisps of sideburn, the plump lips, the green eyes.
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Faithe with her son, AydenAmanda Langston As the two parted ways, Amanda saw Faithe’s demeanor shift.
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So even if disconnected from headquarters, a brigade can still use the system.
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Carbon offsets, by contrast, can be difficult to verify and are often disconnected from local conditions.
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Lebanon’s fragile sovereignty The lack of resolved borders and Israel’s periodic incursions into southern Lebanon have predictably meant that Lebanon has struggled to assert sovereignty over its own territory.
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One quick concluding note: Like Bad Sisters, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast has what feels to me like a pretty resolved (and effective) ending, especially given the amount of time Saoirse spends in the finale talking about the difficulties of writing endings for TV.
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But my own family has felt the brunt of the exclusion after my father’s parents – both of whom were Parsi – divorced and each remarried outside.
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Many parents are single, divorced or live with same-sex partners.
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“Sundered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sundered. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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