as in severed
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as in divided
to set or force apart
placed the dissevered pieces of chicken in the roasting pan
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissevered
Adjective
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Our far more divided country disagrees about basic goals.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025 -
And in a time in which the world can feel very divided, this is more important than ever.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
3 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Data held in qubits is affected by data held in other qubits, even when physically separated.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
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Once the ladies are separated, Jackie pulls Heavenly aside to scold her for her behavior.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
23 Dec. 2024
Verb
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In fact, lots of people are feeling distanced or disconnected, and want to know how to start a friend group.—
Tracy Brower,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024
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Avoid the pitfalls of becoming a leader who seems entitled or disconnected from the daily challenges of their teams.—
Joseph Edgar,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
Verb
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The game is split into night and day cycles, where the danger of the journey melts into campfire talk at night and exchanging stories with other travelers.—
Megan Farokhmanesh,
WIRED,
5 Mar. 2025
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The Lionsgate Studios and Starz will soon split into two stand-alone companies.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Within a few years, the two parted ways, splitting their business interests.—
Matthew Schneier,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2025
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In a lively celebration of whiskers and wit, a man dressed as Moses stands on stage, holding the Ten Commandments before a sea of parted beards and mustaches inside Detroit's historic Masonic Temple.—
David Rodriguez Muñoz,
Detroit Free Press,
5 Oct. 2024
Verb
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In November, two fiber-optic Baltic Sea cables were severed.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
31 Dec. 2024
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Iran’s land bridge to Hezbollah has been severed by the fall of Syria’s Assad regime.—
Dina Kraft,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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As President-elect Trump approaches the second half of his discontinuous presidency, Americans seem cool to his signature economic proposal: steep new tariffs on America’s most important trading partners.—
Joseph Thorndike,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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About 19,000 people had to flee the city, which is in an area with discontinuous permafrost.—
Evan Bush,
NBC News,
10 Dec. 2024
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“Dissevered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissevered. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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