How to Use bifurcate in a Sentence

bifurcate

verb

• The stream bifurcated into two narrow winding channels.
• And now the project is about serving as a connection between the neighborhoods initially bifurcated by the station, railroad tracks and the Vernor Viaduct.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2024
• Health-care experts warned that the order could bifurcate the market between the healthy and the sick.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2017
• The trial began in late September, and the judge has since bifurcated the case.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• That episode taught many to bifurcate their CNN-watching and market-tracking brains.
  — Justina Lee, Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2020
• At that time, Winship led the effort to bridge the gap with the goal of keeping the union from breaking up or bifurcating along more permanent lines.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• The election bifurcated time into the before and the after.
  — Vogue, 14 Feb. 2018
• Snyder in June granted a joint request to bifurcate the trial.
  — Ashley Cullins, Billboard, 13 July 2019
• For starters, about this business of bifurcating worlds.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2018
• The industry is incredibly bifurcated, which leads to the client having to do a lot of work.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 16 May 2024
• Through the 1980s, when the territory of Yemen was still bifurcated into two nations, Riyadh bankrolled the spread of Wahhabism in the north, weakening the Houthis.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
• He was meant to chat with Jeremy Renner, but when the Hawkeye star failed to show Brolin had no choice but to bifurcate himself and occupy both seats.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 June 2022
• The city was also racially bifurcated between black and white, which left no place for someone of Latino descent.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
• Ford did this by bifurcating its compact utilities into the Escape and the new Bronco Sport.
  — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Google’s Pixel line now is bifurcated into two price tiers.
  — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 12 June 2019
• The reality is consumers don’t bifurcate or segment their world like that.
  — Leigh Kamping-Carder, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
• The dried blood snaked across Nick Foligno's grill, bifurcating below his right eye and running down his puffy cheeks, even staining several mustache hairs dark red.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Many people say that the United States is bifurcating into a nation of rich and poor – with the rich getting ever more benefits and the poor being treated, well, poorly.
  — Cincinnati.com, 24 May 2017
• The world seemed to bifurcate into people who still had jobs (for now) and those who didn’t, with the former anxiously looking for ways to cover for the latter, who were now scrambling for new sources of income, any income.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2020
• One interesting thing to note is how the show has bifurcated itself in such a way that a small majority of the series regulars are now in Canada.
  — Emily Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 14 Aug. 2019
• Those twin approaches still play out in the modern food-media landscape, which often seems bifurcated.
  — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• Bush then made an unsuccessful motion to bifurcate the salary increases: a 30 percent raise for council members and 15 percent for the mayor.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
• Society is bifurcating into those who are part of the innovation economy (lords) and those who aren’t (serfs).
  — Scott Galloway, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
• Batiste’s career blew up during the pandemic, while his wife battled leukemia, and the film that resulted from that time often feels awkwardly bifurcated.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2024
• The move by Democrats would bifurcate and weaken privacy protections online.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 May 2018
• Their wide sweep may further bifurcate global supply chains and stymie China’s broader chip industry, setting it back years in efforts to catch up with more advanced U.S. and Asian rivals.
  — Peter Landers, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
• Beijing and Washington nowadays also look at the world as bifurcated (although not yet bipolar).
  — Wang Jisi, Foreign Affairs, 23 Nov. 2023
• This is precisely the sort of middle-income job needed in the Bay Area, which like many urban areas is bifurcating into an economy of high-wage knowledge jobs and low-wage service jobs.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2019
• In Selma, about 100 pages later, the question recurs: the image shows a flat, barren geometry of a monochromatic street bifurcated by a vivid telephone pole.
  — Robert Pinsky, New York Times, 1 June 2017
• The result suggests that trade is moving in a similar direction to tech, with the world bifurcating into separate zones as tensions between China and the U.S. force nations to take sides.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Sep 2024