How to Use bifurcate in a Sentence

bifurcate

verb
  • The stream bifurcated into two narrow winding channels.
  • The goal here is not to have a world that is bifurcated in any way.
    — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The judge has since bifurcated the case.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • 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 report paints a picture of an industry bifurcated between the haves and the have-nots.
    — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 26 June 2024
  • Snyder in June granted a joint request to bifurcate the trial.
    — Ashley Cullins, Billboard, 13 July 2019
  • The reality is consumers don’t bifurcate or segment their world like that.
    — Leigh Kamping-Carder, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
  • The trial began in late September, and the judge has since bifurcated the case.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Once again the stock tape was heavily bifurcated with distinct groups leading and lagging.
    — Jeff Marks,morgan Chittum,paulina Likos, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The industry is incredibly bifurcated, which leads to the client having to do a lot of work.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 16 May 2024
  • That episode taught many to bifurcate their CNN-watching and market-tracking brains.
    — Justina Lee, Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2020
  • The venture market has been bifurcated for some time now of course, as AI soars while other sectors slump.
    — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Those twin approaches still play out in the modern food-media landscape, which often seems bifurcated.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • At the same time, the enterprise AI market is bifurcating.
    — Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • These goals may appear bifurcated, but they will become increasingly intertwined in the years ahead.
    — Gary Roughead, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Since then, the consumer economy has only become more bifurcated.
    — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Especially given the value of sports rights, some programmers could also bifurcate their rights.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Where the Real Bets Are The market is bifurcating.
    — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • The move by Democrats would bifurcate and weaken privacy protections online.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 May 2018
  • Because the space is bifurcated, the front half will be thematically based and flip every four to six weeks and filtered through an edit of all its brand partners.
    — Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Feldstein Soto said the proposal to bifurcate the office has nothing to do with her performance.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
  • By the end of the 20th century, the assignments bifurcated.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Without the long corridor bifurcating the building, more units can have windows on multiple walls, which improves air flow and lets in more natural light.
    — Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Today, there is a concerted effort to bifurcate Israel from Judaism.
    — Marc Schneier, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Instead of co-op games being permanently bifurcated in split-screen mode, players will have an option that will merge the two screens into one if players are close to each other.
    — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 16 July 2024
  • Ford did this by bifurcating its compact utilities into the Escape and the new Bronco Sport.
    — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 17 July 2023

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