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Definition of segmentednext

segmented

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verb

past tense of segment

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of segmented
Adjective
Gold said Ascension likely could have blocked the weaker Kerberos implementation in its main network and supported it only in a segmented part that tightly restricted the accounts that could use it. Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025 Some areas are literally single hallways wedged between important rooms with nothing to find, while others are multi-segmented wings of a forest that could easily weave together organically if there wasn’t a mandate to play like a PS2 game. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025 High power and considerable range, limited by lower ammo count and segmented reload. Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025 Engineers have spent years working to deliver a modern version of the company's segmented metal grille. Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for segmented
Recent Examples of Synonyms for segmented
Adjective
  • Cities have refused to release personal information about residents unless necessary for the investigation of specific crimes.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Does the client have a specific mental disorder?
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • With limited time to build up to Saturday Night’s Main Event, just days before the Royal Rumble, Rhodes and Fatu hit a home run with one of the early candidates for feud of the year.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Geographic barriers and limited profit potential have long discouraged private internet service providers from these areas, thus necessitating public investment.
    Letters to the Editor, Oc Register, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • America’s economy has been increasingly bifurcated for quite some time – with the exception of a few years following the pandemic.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Looking ahead, Rees said the North American consumer is bifurcated, with highly affluent shoppers in great financial shape and a large portion of customers at the lower end who are super cautious about their spending and buying closer to need.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This selective approach allows Chinese tech companies to access advanced chips while maintaining control over their use in security-sensitive applications.
    Joe Toscano, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Schoenrock said that the Flyway Federation's complaints are contextually selective.
    Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 25 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Federal and local officials again were angrily divided over who was to blame.
    Jack Brook, Twin Cities, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Analysts are divided on the stock, with seven rating it a strong buy or buy and 10 viewing it as a hold.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Until interoperability becomes the norm, patients and providers will continue navigating powerful but incomplete solutions in a system that remains structurally fragmented.
    Sahar Hashmi, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The company is also accused of providing shoddy or incomplete solar panel installation and damaging consumers' homes.
    Katie Houlis, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Negotiations to avert a partial government shutdown are being complicated by Democratic demands that any changes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy be written into law by Congress.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The statement didn’t mention specific securities, but the timing suggests most of the funding for the partial payments this week could be coming from the state firm.
    Bloomberg News, Bloomberg, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • They were shared again and again, dissected and debated by journalists, politicians, lawyers, activists and millions of people.
    Maggie Vespa, NBC news, 30 Jan. 2026
  • 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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“Segmented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segmented. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.

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