trisected

Definition of trisectednext
past tense of trisect

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for trisected
Verb
  • The conservatory opens out to a small woodland — call it Glazer Shire — bisected by a small creek.
    Mark Lamster Architecture Critic, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • In fact, the trend in recent times has been to rejoin urban neighborhoods that were bisected by interstate highway construction in the 1960s.
    Ian Savage, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Crest Canyon Crest Canyon, known as District X1A, is in the construction phase, which is divided into three work zones that run through September.
    Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Today, its suites are divided between the Sands Collection, whose refreshed family collection is particularly well conceived, and the Paiza Collection.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Still, the meeting — and more precisely, where the city goes from here — is being dissected by neighbors, on social media, at places of worship.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • They are revered one minute and dissected the next.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • By the end of the 20th century, the assignments bifurcated.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Feb. 2026
  • In practice, CVs are being used across a market that has become increasingly bifurcated.
    Sunaina Sinha Haldea, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Perceptions about the country’s and states' trajectories cleaved along partisan lines for respondents in both Houston and Chicago.
    Maliya Ellis, Houston Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Because of Proposition 50, the current, deep-red district will be cleaved into three pieces.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Bridgeman pocketed $4 million on Sunday while Sepp Straka and Brian Harman split the last-place share of $51,000.
    Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • For this service they were allegedly paid $60,000 to split among themselves.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 22 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The Mission patients were separated from other patients only by plastic partitions, according to the CMS records.
    Andrew Jones, CNN Money, 25 Feb. 2026
  • In hopes of becoming a singer, Big Edie separated from her husband.
    Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 25 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Close-quartered and stylish, the movie begins at a Gothic New England mansion where the wealthy patriarch Harlan Thrombey has been found with his throat slit.
    Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • In the old days beggars were drawn and quartered in that square.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Trisected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trisected. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.

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