as in radiating
to extend outwards from or as if from a central point
threads branched from the center of the spider web
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Recent Examples of branching
The follow-up to Obsidian Entertainment’s excellent action RPG The Outer Worlds brings the space-faring adventure to a new setting with a new cast of characters, but with the same emphasis on branching story paths based on how players interact with the game’s NPCs.
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Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Developers should be able to reconstruct task graphs showing the sequence of agent decisions, branching logic and results.
—Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Anthropic's Claude has offered conversation branching for over a year, allowing users to switch between branches with navigational arrow buttons.
—Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Wide open areas with branching paths and extremely verticality are key to Metroidvania games like Hollow Knight, but usually the pleasure derived from unlocking a previously dead-end space comes from having an interconnected world.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
In these animals, astrocytes in a key brain region, the hypothalamus, lose some of their branching structures.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
What's mucking up the process is a telepathic outlier named The Mule (Pilou Asbæk), whose ravenous appetite for galactic dominance has created anomalies in Seldon's branching prognostications of how this whole ordeal will unfold.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
There’s no telling which of those tests could perturb this new saltative branching model into its next evolutionary spike.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
The team found that each vagus nerve fiber connected to only one organ in the gut, rather than branching to many different organs as some had predicted.
—Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2025
Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Developers should be able to reconstruct task graphs showing the sequence of agent decisions, branching logic and results.
—Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Anthropic's Claude has offered conversation branching for over a year, allowing users to switch between branches with navigational arrow buttons.
—Benj Edwards, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
Wide open areas with branching paths and extremely verticality are key to Metroidvania games like Hollow Knight, but usually the pleasure derived from unlocking a previously dead-end space comes from having an interconnected world.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
In these animals, astrocytes in a key brain region, the hypothalamus, lose some of their branching structures.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
What's mucking up the process is a telepathic outlier named The Mule (Pilou Asbæk), whose ravenous appetite for galactic dominance has created anomalies in Seldon's branching prognostications of how this whole ordeal will unfold.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
There’s no telling which of those tests could perturb this new saltative branching model into its next evolutionary spike.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
The team found that each vagus nerve fiber connected to only one organ in the gut, rather than branching to many different organs as some had predicted.
—Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for branching
Verb
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Lights appeared up ahead, radiating energy like celestial bodies.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Instead of sound radiating out at all angles, the sound is redirected by solid glass upwards to initially dissipate vertically instead of horizontally.—
Todd Boss,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Israel accuses the commission of having a political agenda against Israel and diverging from its mandate, and declined to cooperate with it.—
Emma Farge,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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In this ambitious account, Wang, a technology analyst with a journalist’s eye for color, uses studies of Chinese innovation to show how the two countries’ diverging paths and pathologies can be traced to their political cultures.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Branching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/branching. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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