to bifurcate
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8.6
- verb
- /ˈbaɪfərˌkeɪt/
- Formal
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bifurcar
- Research supports a bifurcated categorization of delinquent youth based upon the onset and maintenance of antisocial behavior.
- bifurcated review
- bifurcated review project
- bifurcated garments
The world's going to bifurcate and there will be people that adopt the algorithms and there will be people that flat reject it, plain and simple.
- The world's going to bifurcate and there will be people that adopt the algorithms and there will be people that flat reject it, plain and simple.
- Have you noticed now that people are starting to use Black Lives Matter and BLM, they've bifurcated?
- And now bifurcating so aggressively that we are going to be swimming in courses.
- And they shortly bifurcate, though the bonobos, they continue to share throughout the rest of their lives.
- And you know, I think it will kind of bifurcate perhaps the the transaction a little bit of, you know, the the agents are going to be selling, they're not going to be doing your, your.
Examples
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Racial segregation has bifurcated liberal and Republican dimensions of citizenship in the Black experience.
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It's like everything is super intentionally integrated so that we're working on the whole child and not bifurcating everything that they do.
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But I start thinking about, OK, why do we bifurcate in the left and right?
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And they shortly bifurcate, though the bonobos, they continue to share throughout the rest of their lives.
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That caused some of the PCI Express slots to not bifurcate or split properly.
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Journalism began to express and reflect a bifurcated public sphere as individuals joined politics through parties and the press.
Academic text (1993) -
The world's going to bifurcate and there will be people that adopt the algorithms and there will be people that flat reject it, plain and simple.
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Many Jews solve the situation by creating a bifurcated system, eating kosher at home but non-kosher outside the home.
Academic text (1999) -
In that passage, Frankfurter signaled his tacit acceptance of the bifurcated review project while apparently protesting against it.
Academic text (1996) -
The path will bifurcate into two trails, one leading to the beach and the other to the mountain.
Synonyms
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1.1
To split something into parts or groups
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1.3
To break something into two or more parts
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1.9
To break into parts or pieces
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2.9
To separate and move in different directions after being together
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2.7
To split into two or more parts
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2.6
To divide something into smaller parts
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4.6
To divide into two or more branches
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5.1
Divide something into two equal parts, usually by a straight line or cut
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9.9
To cut or separate something into parts, often by breaking it
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7.0
To split into two or more parts, often in science
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8.4
To spread out into many branches like a tree or its roots
To divide into branches, for example a road or river
To divide something into separate parts
To spread apart from a common point like fingers or branches
To tear something into separate parts, usually by force
How Branched
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Morphology
Etymology
Bifurcate comes from the Latin parts bi- 'two' and furca 'fork', and it originally meant 'to make a fork'. So, to bifurcate is to split or divide into two branches.