sectioned

past tense of section

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sectioned
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • Since then, Nebius has fully severed ties with Yandex’s Russian operations and has relocated to Amsterdam with an international engineering team.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • One month before a worker severed part of his finger at a food packaging plant owned by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, federal regulators ordered the company to make sure equipment couldn't turn on unexpectedly and injure employees, records show.
    Mary Spicuzza, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Her long, dark hair was parted in the center and styled in soft waves.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • That's really the one of the criticisms about the opposition is that it's fragmented and therefore not effective.
    Leila Fadel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Kafka’s life and work are fragmented, so the film had to be fragmented too—piecing together shards of his fiction, his letters, and his lived experience.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After McNeil refused to get out of his car, Bowers smashed the driver’s side window, punched McNeil in the head and pulled him out of the SUV.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Protesters smashed windows and looted local businesses and set government buildings on fire.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
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“Sectioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sectioned. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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