as in severed
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to set or force apart
during the cold war East and West Berlin were sundered by an impenetrable wall
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Recent Examples of sundered
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Nov. 2025
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
3 May 2026
The company has already sundered its businesses internally into two divisions ahead of a formal separation.
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Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
Others, like me, wake up in the middle of the night, their sleep sundered into two chunks.
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Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Comcast and Versant won’t be completely sundered after the split, as the USGA deal demonstrates.
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David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln, hoping to unite a sundered nation, issued a proclamation declaring Thanksgiving to be a national holiday.
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Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Nov. 2025
Verb
It was booked to fly on a Soyuz in 2022, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February of that year sundered the international partnership that led to the deal, putting the satellite in mothballs for a spell.
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Mike Wall,
Space.com,
3 May 2026
The company has already sundered its businesses internally into two divisions ahead of a formal separation.
—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
Others, like me, wake up in the middle of the night, their sleep sundered into two chunks.
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Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Comcast and Versant won’t be completely sundered after the split, as the USGA deal demonstrates.
—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sundered
Adjective
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According to the full plot description on Amazon, our protagonists have more to worry about than just severed fingers.
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The inciting incident for the new story comes after the principal of the high school receives a severed human finger in the mail, sending the parents into an uproar.
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Congressional Republicans were divided over the Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision to strike down an executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
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Countless individual tread blocks, divided by wide grooves, wriggled around instead of digging in.
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Trump’s 2020 defeat and unusual split term solved that problem.
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Like maybe a split step a little too hard and one knee goes in, that’s kind of the scary fall.
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Faster clinical brain imaging The new design removes one of the biggest bottlenecks in conventional computer architecture, where memory and processors are physically separated.
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Instead, Hargitay learned at age 30 that her bio-dad was Italian entertainer Nelson Sardelli — Giovanna Sardelli’s father — with whom Mansfield had a brief relationship while separated from Mickey Hargitay in the early 1960s.
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The ex-couple parted ways in 2020 after a seven-year engagement.
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Faithe with her son, AydenAmanda Langston As the two parted ways, Amanda saw Faithe’s demeanor shift.
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Violators get warning letters before fines are given, and ultimately, water may be disconnected.
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If your pet already has a microchip, make sure the information is up to date; sometimes, even pets with microchips can’t be identified because the phone number associated with them has been disconnected.
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Lebanon’s fragile sovereignty The lack of resolved borders and Israel’s periodic incursions into southern Lebanon have predictably meant that Lebanon has struggled to assert sovereignty over its own territory.
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What frustrated her most was that the issue refused to stay resolved.
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To claim Head of Household (HOH), the taxpayer generally must be unmarried (single, legally separated, divorced, or widowed) or be considered unmarried, pay more than half the cost of maintaining the home, and have a qualifying person.
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But my own family has felt the brunt of the exclusion after my father’s parents – both of whom were Parsi – divorced and each remarried outside.
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“Sundered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sundered. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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