as in to fractionate
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Recent Examples of fractionalize
The trend toward fractional trading also comes at a time when stock splits—when companies with high share prices fractionalize shares to more affordable levels—have fallen out of favor (Apple is one outlier, having split its stock several times).
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Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 2 June 2020
Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 2 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionalize
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The researchers used a single high radiation dose, whereas human treatments are usually fractionated – that is, given in smaller doses over time.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Oct. 2025
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Dent corn is fractionated into its various elements (starch, protein/germ, oil and moisture).—
WWD,
WWD,
16 Oct. 2024
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Today, there is a concerted effort to bifurcate Israel from Judaism.—
Marc Schneier,
New York Daily News,
27 Jan. 2026
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While designing the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, in the 1990s, the architect would sit by the river that bifurcates the city, looking at different metal treatments.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
6 Dec. 2025
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The federal government included Niscemi in a state of emergency declaration on Monday for three southern regions hard hit by Cyclone Harry and set aside an initial $120 million to be divided among them.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Jan. 2026
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In moments of crisis—when communities are grieving, divided, or searching for ways to care for one another—nonprofits stand on the front lines, holding our social fabric together through connection, healing, and support.—
Cat Ward,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The project would consolidate three parcels and subdivide them into six for construction of one house on each in the 8300 block of La Jolla Shores Drive.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Dec. 2025
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Best country album has now been subdivided into best contemporary country album and best traditional country album, which is only catching up with what already exists over in the R&B field.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
11 Nov. 2025
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Their relationship hasn't been without bumps — the pair briefly split in 2015 — but the couple has managed to weather the ups and downs.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
13 Jan. 2026
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For a splurge, split a stateroom in The Haven by Norwegian, a ship-within-a-ship concept offering luxury accommodations and 24-hour butler service.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Jan. 2026
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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
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Worse examples: resystematize, transparentize, essentialize, rightsize, dichotomize.—
Gary Gilson,
Star Tribune,
10 Oct. 2020
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Support and apprehension from lobbyists, lawmakers Almost every lawmaker and lobbyist who testified for or against the bill as it was dissected for hours across three committee hearings supported the bill's intention.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
29 Jan. 2026
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And no matter where anyone turned, everyone poked, prodded and dissected the sounds, lyrics and yes, muses – a prospect faced by no other artist in 2025.—
Denise Warner,
Billboard,
29 Jan. 2026
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After it was collected, it was then segmented by state and city, and an index was created to rank the most and least Christmassy states and cities in America.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
20 Dec. 2025
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The work is segmented, each employee tasked with one of 180 watchmaking crafts.—
Jon Wertheim,
CBS News,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Fractionalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionalize. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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