trisect

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Recent Examples of trisect Arkansas lawmakers on Thursday voted to send the governor identical congressional redistricting bills that would trisect the state's most populous county, despite objections that the plans would remove thousands of Black people in Pulaski County from the 2nd District. Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2021 But logistics are complex in this nation of about 50 million people that is trisected by mountain ranges and connected by long desert roads. Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2020 Hicks removed the dividing walls so that the room, running about 88 feet long and trisected by Corinthian columns, could be admired in all its splendor. Robert O'Byrne, ELLE Decor, 12 Oct. 2018 The concert dramatically trisected his career into three parts: G-Dragon, G-Dragon vs. Kwon Jiyong, and Kwon Jiyong. Tamar Herman, Billboard, 31 July 2017 Inked boxes turn into squares, and if they’re bisected or trisected, transform into tables with fields that can be filled out. Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 23 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trisect
Verb
  • Mulholland Drive—the actual street—abuts the back of David’s property and threads through the hills that bisect Los Angeles.
    Will Bahr, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Police removed a car matching the description from Bill Edwards Drive, which bisects the Wittenberg campus, but said nothing suspicious was found.
    Bob Vitale, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • Teams now often have to rely on shorter, segmented sponsorships throughout the racing season.
    Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
  • That forced her to work hard, plan ahead, and choose an academic path segmented enough to ensure full scholarships.
    Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The rights to subdivide Mar-a-Lago have expired, and Trump brags profusely of its costly restoration.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • President Trump and billionaire sidekick Elon Musk Tuesday accused the liberal media of trying to divide them to thwart their shared political agenda.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Putin sees it as a way to divide the West, analysts say.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Either way, that both these possibilities suddenly exist on screen bifurcates the story between two equally didactic possibilities when its strengths lie in lingering uncertainties.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Lake Avenue, which bifurcates the two into east and west, had historically been a de facto segregation line preventing families of color from purchasing properties east of Lake Avenue.
    Jireh Deng, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • The Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast suggests and dissects the buzziest new movies, TV, music, books, videogames and more, five days a week.
    Manuela López Restrepo, NPR, 18 Feb. 2025
  • For more on The White Lotus, sign up for The White Lotus Club, our subscriber-exclusive newsletter obsessing, dissecting, and debating everything about season three.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Before luxury quartered off the community and gentrified the kinship.
    Marcus Thompson II, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The buck stopped at 15 yards, slightly quartering to him.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 29 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • 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.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Worse examples: resystematize, transparentize, essentialize, rightsize, dichotomize.
    Gary Gilson, Star Tribune, 10 Oct. 2020

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“Trisect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trisect. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.

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