as in parted
to go or move in different directions from a central point
the road forks up ahead and you'll want to take the right fork
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Recent Examples of forked
From a cap perspective, bonus money is spread across the lifetime of a contract, even if the money is forked over at once, allowing Jones to outspend his competition in part thanks to the Cowboys’ league-leading cash flow.
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Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025
The channel forked into a series of smaller canals, each branching farther or looping around islets or petering out into dead ends.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 4 Sep. 2025
The channel forked into a series of smaller canals, each branching farther or looping around islets or petering out into dead ends.
—Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forked
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Her long, dark hair was parted in the center and styled in soft waves.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
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As if that weren’t enough, the clouds parted just enough to reveal a rainbow in the late afternoon sunlight.—
Stefanie Waldek,
AFAR Media,
12 Sep. 2025
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Even within the Nasdaq-100 , the biggest of the big have diverged upward from the pack.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
15 Sep. 2025
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Now, Lorey is paying tribute to her childhood friend, years after their paths diverged.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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An explosion separated the Bell’s tail boom, main rotor, mast and transmission and sent the fuselage crashing into the ground.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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As before, the Humane Editor uses a large central workspace subdivided into individual documents, here separated by backtick characters.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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According to convention, all money is divided into M0 (the monetary base), M1 which includes M0 and on demand bank deposits and M2 which includes M1 and money market funds and timed deposits such as CDs.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The site consists primarily of 10,900 square feet of office spaces that can be divided into as many as four office suites, according to a marketing brochure that Cushman & Wakefield, a commercial real estate firm, had circulated.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Forked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forked. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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