SECTIONED Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

sectioned

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past tense of section

as in separated

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In the commotion, she was briefly separated from her 85-year-old mother, who lives with her.

— Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Instead, the adults were the ones who needed to be separated.

— Jonathan Alpert OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

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Colombia opened an embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday, marking a major shift in relations with Israel after conservative President Abelardo de la Espriella restored diplomatic ties severed by his predecessor over the war in Gaza.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
One of those data cables had also previously been severed by the Chinese cargo ship Yi Peng 3 just one month earlier in November 2024, when that ship damaged two data cables in the Baltic region.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026

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Next to her, Deary sported the quintessential Gen Z slicked-back ponytail, parted in the middle and bristle-brushed back from the sides of her head.

— Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
For the shoot, Chastain swapped her signature red hair for soft blonde waves parted at the center.

— Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 8 Oct. 2026

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For example, when a credit card is fragmented into particles some 10 microns in diameter, there is a more than 200-fold increase in its surface area, says Wei Min, a chemist at Columbia University and one of the senior authors of the study.

— Payal Dhar, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2026
Without senior-level ownership, AI initiatives risk becoming fragmented, under-supervised or misaligned with broader business priorities.

— Jennifer C. Wolfe, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

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