as in to bifurcate
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Recent Examples of dichotomize
Lyle: What was really important for us with Lottie is that there’s a tendency to want to dichotomize characters in television and film into protagonists and antagonists, or heroes and villains.
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Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
Worse examples: resystematize, transparentize, essentialize, rightsize, dichotomize.
—Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 10 Oct. 2020
Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
Worse examples: resystematize, transparentize, essentialize, rightsize, dichotomize.
—Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 10 Oct. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dichotomize
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But Stiller and producer and star Adam Scott recognized the potential in newcomer Dan Erickson’s surreal script: Employees volunteer to undergo an operation, called severance, that bifurcates the consciousness into work life and personal life.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
18 Dec. 2024
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This, to me, represents how Tesfaye has had to bifurcate himself in order to produce music and star in and completely rewrite The Idol.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
24 Oct. 2024
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The galleries are categorized according to three themes — religion, kingship, and society — and divided into historical eras: Predynastic, the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, the Late Kingdom, Ptolemaic (Greek) Egypt, and the Roman period.—
Kate McMahon,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Jan. 2025
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Americans largely support Trump's mass deportation plans, but are divided on how they should be carried out.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Simultaneously, Gibson dissects their complex life’s experience in extended one-on-one interviews — speaking at length about the irony of their troubles with depression years before their ovarian cancer diagnosis in 2021.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2025
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The filing dissects Geoff’s declarations to an Argentine prosecutor in the days following the singer’s death, pulling out the numerous insistences where the pop star’s father claims that Liam was in Nores’ care.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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The glorious few who still worry about the decline of Palm Beach society speculated wildly that Trump was planning to legalize gambling and build a casino, or — the truly frightening possibility — subdivide his acreage and sell houses.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2025
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These large partitions are then subdivided into smaller ones, called macros and standard cells.—
Somdeb Majumdar,
IEEE Spectrum,
21 Nov. 2024
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Travel companies can segment their customers into different groups: leisure or business, luxury or budget, family or solo traveler.—
Angus McDonald,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Or, like Swarovski is doing by segmenting its collection into identifiable tiers, which the brand calls its ‘complications,’ targeting different product-price profiles.—
Stéphane JG Girod,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
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Dent corn is fractionated into its various elements (starch, protein/germ, oil and moisture).—
WWD,
WWD,
16 Oct. 2024
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The initial wave fractionated into smaller 25-foot waves, which reverberated across the fjord for over a week.—
Carly Miller,
Forbes,
23 Sep. 2024
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The two were married in 1993 and split in 2002 when Ireland was only 7 years old.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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One Pacific Palisades home that survived the Palisades Fire was later split in half by a landslide, CBS News Los Angeles' Rick Montanez reported.—
Sarah Lynch Baldwin,
CBS News,
16 Jan. 2025
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The canal bisects Panama, running 51 miles end to end.—
Alma Solís,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025
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Many of his mixed media works are busy, bisected, and richly colored.—
Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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“Dichotomize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dichotomize. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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