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fractionalized

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verb

past tense of fractionalize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionalized
Adjective
  • The show’s title is synonymous with the fears of many Americans, who navigated and are still navigating a divided political nation.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • Typically, the Supreme Court rulings released earlier in the term are less divided, and decisions released later in the term tend to break down along ideological lines at a higher rate.
    Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 28 June 2026
Verb
  • However, the longer-term consequences could be more profound and bifurcated, a Reuters columnist argued, with governments increasing their support for electrification and renewables, as well as ramping up purchases of coal to reduce reliance on Middle East transit routes.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 17 June 2026
  • In this scenario, a member's economic interest and other interests (voting rights and the like) would be carefully bifurcated, with the economic interest being transferrable and the other interests being non-transferrable.
    Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Adjective
  • His work deepened and developed under the responsiveness of the academy and a larger and not-yet-balkanized reading public.
    Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Angry, balkanized, hostile communities with shattered trust in American institutions — from courts to free elections — undermine the social capital needed for free enterprise to prosper.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The result is uncommon room layouts like the tri-suite king room equipped with two twin-sized beds and a king bed split by a privacy divider that doubles as a playful art installation.
    Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Cutright, who was not charged with murder, split from Devastating Pyrotechnics to form Blackstar Fireworks on the property in 2023.
    Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • In 1865, more than eight decades after Elizabeth Freeman defeated slavery in Massachusetts, the practice was finally abolished throughout the United States, though only after a civil war that cleaved the young nation and cost more than 600,000 lives.
    New York Times, New York Times, 22 June 2026
  • For years, Seattle’s waterfront was isolated and written off as a tourist trap thanks to a double-decker highway that cleaved it from the rest of the city.
    Allecia Vermillion, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 May 2026
Verb
  • Streaming numbers are in their relative infancy and TV ratings are now dissected with multiplatform caveats.
    Erik Hayden, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
  • He was dissected in various media reports.
    Chet Flippo, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • So even if disconnected from headquarters, a brigade can still use the system.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 June 2026
  • Carbon offsets, by contrast, can be difficult to verify and are often disconnected from local conditions.
    Patricia J. Kissinger, STAT, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • In a place where many homes lean into glass, driftwood tones and a conventional layout, this one sprawls like a resort, with sleeping quarters separated into individual pavilion-like structures.
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 29 June 2026
  • While first stage successfully separated, the second stage engine did not get it into orbit.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2026
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“Fractionalized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionalized. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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