fractionate

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Recent Examples of fractionate Dent corn is fractionated into its various elements (starch, protein/germ, oil and moisture). WWD, 16 Oct. 2024 The initial wave fractionated into smaller 25-foot waves, which reverberated across the fjord for over a week. Carly Miller, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024 In this relational void, where the story often feels fractionated rather than woven, the wildfire itself emerges as the book's main character. Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 June 2023 Native uses wholesome ingredients like shea butter, tapioca starch, and fractionated coconut oil (which is less messy and absorbs more easily into your skin than regular coconut oil). Leeron Horry, Popular Science, 25 Oct. 2019 Perhaps each particle is free to fractionate into millions of dispersed parts in its own private cosmic wormhole, until a measurement forces it to become whole at some particular location, chosen probabilistically. Quanta Magazine, 16 Feb. 2017 Buzz: With the help of Botox and fractionated lasers, doctors can erase lines and wrinkles on the chest and even sharpen the appearance of cleavage. Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Dec. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionate
Verb
  • Physical activity monitors that can dissociate time and intensity might help future research unravel these associations more clearly.
    Jonathan G. Hakun, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Eat, Drink, and Be Mindful As a person recovering from an eating disorder, eating mindfully and not dissociating when food is around is an ongoing challenge.
    Alysse Dalessandro, Health, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The rights to subdivide Mar-a-Lago have expired, and Trump brags profusely of its costly restoration.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The glorious few who still worry about the decline of Palm Beach society speculated wildly that Trump was planning to legalize gambling and build a casino, or — the truly frightening possibility — subdivide his acreage and sell houses.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The exes, who had their divorce bifurcated, were declared legally single in 2019.
    Elizabeth Rosner, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
  • But Stiller and producer and star Adam Scott recognized the potential in newcomer Dan Erickson’s surreal script: Employees volunteer to undergo an operation, called severance, that bifurcates the consciousness into work life and personal life.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Simultaneously, Gibson dissects their complex life’s experience in extended one-on-one interviews — speaking at length about the irony of their troubles with depression years before their ovarian cancer diagnosis in 2021.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The filing dissects Geoff’s declarations to an Argentine prosecutor in the days following the singer’s death, pulling out the numerous insistences where the pop star’s father claims that Liam was in Nores’ care.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The galleries are categorized according to three themes — religion, kingship, and society — and divided into historical eras: Predynastic, the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, the Late Kingdom, Ptolemaic (Greek) Egypt, and the Roman period.
    Kate McMahon, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Astrology divides the zodiac into elemental groups: Earth: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn Fire: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius Air: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius Water: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces Each element reflects a distinct set of traits and tendencies.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • An additional 10 percent of those sales, plus the sales of books that are not earmarked for a specific store, gets split up and distributed to every store on Bookshop's platform.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Wooden fences sagged and split, their paint faded and peeling.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 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
Verb
  • Travel companies can segment their customers into different groups: leisure or business, luxury or budget, family or solo traveler.
    Angus McDonald, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Or, like Swarovski is doing by segmenting its collection into identifiable tiers, which the brand calls its ‘complications,’ targeting different product-price profiles.
    Stéphane JG Girod, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025

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“Fractionate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionate. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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