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
  • The canal bisects Panama, running 51 miles end to end.
    Alma Solís, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Many of his mixed media works are busy, bisected, and richly colored.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
  • These large partitions are then subdivided into smaller ones, called macros and standard cells.
    Somdeb Majumdar, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into roughly three tiers of access.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The number is calculated by dividing births in a year by the average population for the year.
    Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • JPMorgan’s trading desk focused on the monthly core CPI number as the most critical, and dissected how the S & P 500 might move depending on the reading.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Visitors to the Science Museum will be able to see the menagerie’s most famous resident: Louis XV’s rhinoceros, given to the king by a French governor based in India and later dissected and taxidermied upon its death.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Her husband walked toward her along the village street, where military vehicles are visible outside houses where soldiers are quartered.
    Oksana Parafeniuk, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Podcast: The Case for Ditching Your Treestand and Hunting from the Ground The buck was quartering away, and Pfeiffer had to turn slightly to get a shot angle.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 26 Dec. 2024
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 21 Jan. 2025.

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