trisect

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Recent Examples of trisect Arkansas lawmakers on Thursday voted to send the governor identical congressional redistricting bills that would trisect the state's most populous county, despite objections that the plans would remove thousands of Black people in Pulaski County from the 2nd District. Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2021 But logistics are complex in this nation of about 50 million people that is trisected by mountain ranges and connected by long desert roads. Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020 Hicks removed the dividing walls so that the room, running about 88 feet long and trisected by Corinthian columns, could be admired in all its splendor. Robert O'Byrne, ELLE Decor, 12 Oct. 2018 The concert dramatically trisected his career into three parts: G-Dragon, G-Dragon vs. Kwon Jiyong, and Kwon Jiyong. Tamar Herman, Billboard, 31 July 2017 Inked boxes turn into squares, and if they’re bisected or trisected, transform into tables with fields that can be filled out. Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 23 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trisect
Verb
  • Lawrence showed him a series of complex, bisected 3-D shapes, then reassembled them into weirder shapes.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • And look: their outfits follow basic tailoring principles: jackets bisect halfway from collar to floor; jacket silhouette flows into trousers.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
Verb
  • By segmenting where data should be centralized, shared across business units or governed at the regional level, Hartsock and her team have built flexibility into the company’s data strategy.
    Peter High, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • There’s a smarter, more future-facing loyalty model: one that integrates environmental, social, and governance (ESG) signals directly into how customers are scored, segmented, and rewarded.
    Gabriele Buffo, Fortune, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • The mortgage as a tool favors scarcity and means existing homeowners will be skeptical of change, including subdividing existing homes.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Listen to this article The Poway City Council approved a plan to expand the Parkview Gardens senior care facility and a separate request to subdivide a vacant 43-acre property into two single-family residential parcels.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • Either way, the mood in Iranian circles close to the regime has bifurcated, I’m told.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 22 June 2025
  • The lineup of partners for the 2025 agreement (The CW, CBS and ESPN) suggests the Pac-12 is prioritizing exposure on linear TV for its longer-term deal — a wise move given how the sport could bifurcate into upper and lower tiers in the 2030s.
    Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The brand’s production is divided between Paris and Istanbul, the latter being a city with family ties for India.
    Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 30 June 2025
  • The Oval Office’s ‘One, Big, Beautiful Bill’ has divided opinion, after estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found the policies would cost the poorest Americans roughly $1,600 a year while increasing the income of the wealthiest households by an average of $12,000 annually.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 29 June 2025
Verb
  • From their looks to the culture to the music, fans have been dissecting the film and its characters for any signs of real-life K-pop inspirations.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The hard part is dissecting a legend without soiling a mystery.
    Christopher Borrelli, Boston Herald, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • The strawberries are then quartered and added to the skillet alongside ruby port (a sweet fortified wine that generally tastes like red berries) and fresh ginger for a hint of sweet spice.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • In Middletown, Portland, and Cromwell 2,000 are left homeless, and many are quartered in the State Armory, the Salvation Army headquarters, and the Swedish Orphanage in Cromwell.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025
Verb
  • Lyle: What was really important for us with Lottie is that there’s a tendency to want to dichotomize characters in television and film into protagonists and antagonists, or heroes and villains.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Worse examples: resystematize, transparentize, essentialize, rightsize, dichotomize.
    Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 10 Oct. 2020

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“Trisect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trisect. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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