How to Use bifurcation in a Sentence

bifurcation

noun
  • That bifurcation could happen in the next few years — or not for a decade.
    — oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Right now [there's been] a little bit of a bifurcation of the market.
    — Ashley J. Dimella , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There has been a sharp bifurcation of the right-of-center media.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 30 Jan. 2018
  • But a strange bifurcation arose.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • This striking bifurcation has a lot to do with actors.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 May 2026
  • This was perhaps the greatest bifurcation of the labor force seen since the days of land barons.
    — Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • Who will save journalism from this state of acute and unequal bifurcation?
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The volume hinted at the shape of a skirt, but the bifurcation of the pant legs aided cycling.
    — Christine Ro, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2018
  • But the higher pay some nannies have been able to charge masks a bifurcation in the industry.
    — NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Within the world of people who care about wine, a bifurcation of drinking vessels is in progress.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The concept of a bifurcation didn’t.
    — Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The tide has been slowly shifting back away from car-centric modal bifurcation in cities worldwide.
    — Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 2 Dec. 2020
  • There’s been a bifurcation since then, with the mega-caps now seen by some analysts as less likely to be hurt by higher rates.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • In Asia, the tea leaves are pointing to a very obvious bifurcation.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Asia, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Koh wanted to know how to identify and predict bifurcation points.
    — Leila Sloman, WIRED, 5 May 2024
  • Koh wanted to know how to identify and predict bifurcation points.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
  • There’s also a bifurcation in who’s spending.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 29 Nov. 2025
  • But that is an artificial bifurcation in a country torn by violence on all sides.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, the bifurcation effect seems to be gaining momentum.
    — Scott Galloway, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Of course, the bifurcation of Beijing is not a capricious plot to alienate its residents.
    — Mallika Sen, ajc, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The system shifts from non-chaotic to chaotic behaviors through a cascade of bifurcation points.
    — Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Social media platforms have become the chief culprit for this bifurcation, and for sound reason.
    — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Human languages twist and recast themselves at the bifurcations in their own family tree.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Level 2 refers to minutiae or small details, such as bifurcations, endings, eyes and hooks.
    — Partha Banerjee, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The bifurcation of body and soul has been debated and discussed for many centuries across religions and cultures.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Known as bifurcation, the move meant both actors could engage in other relationships and even get married.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
  • The scientists’ bifurcation models had panned out in nature.
    — Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The only real downside, though, is the bifurcation between two venues located across town from each other.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
  • Still, there are signs that this bifurcation is starker than in a typical slowdown, which could suggest that the better-off aren’t done spending.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
  • With firms pushing to lock down market share in a burgeoning asset class, this bifurcation among fund managers looks set to continue.
    — Elijah Nicholson-Messmer, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2024

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