How to Use bifurcated in a Sentence
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Birdsong and road noise are the poles of Bray Poor’s bifurcated sound world.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
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The bifurcated plot revolves around a pair of ornery old men.
—David Segal, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
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The blood inside him is a bifurcated stream pumping to his heart and his groin.
—Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
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But the script's bifurcated structure short-circuits the whole affair.
—Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader, 30 Jan. 2018
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Ohio ends the year in a kind of limbo on coronavirus with a bifurcated pandemic.
—cleveland, 29 Dec. 2021
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Also, the city of Parkland, where the school is located, has a bifurcated 911 system.
—Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
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At least the recent It movies had an internal logic to the split, which mirrored the bifurcated structure of Stephen King’s novel.
—Vulture, 14 June 2023
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Confidence: Medium The weekend is somewhat bifurcated with a very warm and wet start and a cold finish.
—Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2018
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Drag is the questioning of all that: What is all this fuss about a bifurcated piece of fabric, at least in our American western culture?
—Wilder Davies, Time, 9 Mar. 2018
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The city was supported by its own self-sustaining energies, and the subway in those decades had a bifurcated life.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2022
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In some sense, both sides are right, both sides are wrong and, in the bifurcated politics of this American moment, none of the arguments much matter.
—Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
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The bifurcated four-hour show relegated most of the awards to an all-business first half, which was viewable only on the Paramount+ streaming service.
—New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
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Ultimately, Wisdom of the Crowd is an escapist TV show that asks us to take a break from our bifurcated country to watch men abuse their power.
—Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 20 Sep. 2017
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Critics have said that this bifurcated process is inefficient and allows spaceports to be built and then not used.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 2 Sep. 2022
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The latter is given by taking a small amount of virus in liquid and poking it into the skin with a specialized bifurcated needle.
—Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 26 May 2022
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Kids’ media use has always been a bit bifurcated by gender.
—Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 5 Feb. 2020
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But the judges appeared to bless the idea of separating them, pointing out that New York has a history of holding bifurcated primaries.
—Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
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The other is a 100-seat black box theater located at the top of a grand, bifurcated staircase in the performing arts center’s two-story lobby.
—Corey Dockser, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2019
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In a letter, LePage said the law would set up a bifurcated system of recreational and medical sales — which are legal in Maine — of marijuana in the state.
—Katie Zezima, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2017
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Ancient Roman poet Prudentius even blames a bifurcated tongue as the very origin of sin.
—Parizaad Khan Sethi, Allure, 24 Aug. 2023
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Conn says this bifurcated effect makes Vagabonds a genuinely Sino-Western work of sci-fi, written with both audiences in mind.
—Dana Snitzky, Longreads, 12 May 2020
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In fact these bifurcated garments have been the subject of controversy through much of their history.
—Vogue, 16 Sep. 2019
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The case involved a challenge to Hawaii’s absolute ban on possessing butterfly knives, a type of small knife with a bifurcated handle that folds upward to cover the blade when sheathed.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
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Such a bifurcated market could result in oddities, such as the same stock having two different prices.
—Alexander Osipovich and Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
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Welcome to the bifurcated world of TikTok, an emerging social-media powerhouse that lets users create and share short videos, many no longer than 15 seconds.
—Tali Arbel, The Denver Post, 29 Feb. 2020
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At times, Biden’s bifurcated messaging—like the state of the economy itself—can seem like a jumble of contradictions.
—Chris Megerian, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2022
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Cohn said there would be bifurcated rates for cash and non-cash holdings, with liabilities on illiquid assets being lower and payable over a longer time-frame.
—Alan Murray, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2017
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But the bifurcated 2018 map — Senate races in Trump country, House races in the ever-bluer suburbs — reveals how little appetite there is for an immigration fight on these grounds.
—David Weigel, Washington Post, 22 June 2018
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The reason for this bifurcated strategy is that the high amount (from the primary earner) will be collected for as long as either one of you is alive, while the low amount will be collected for a much shorter time.
—William Baldwin, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2022
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Instead of perpetuating the bifurcated market, Apple needs to upgrade the features of its iPhone 8 and 8 Plus.
—Mohanbir Sawhney, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2018
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