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to set or force apart
during the cold war East and West Berlin were sundered by an impenetrable wall
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Recent Examples of sundered
Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2025
Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
Others, like me, wake up in the middle of the night, their sleep sundered into two chunks.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Comcast and Versant won’t be completely sundered after the split, as the USGA deal demonstrates.
—David Bloom, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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In 1863, Abraham Lincoln, hoping to unite a sundered nation, issued a proclamation declaring Thanksgiving to be a national holiday.
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The company has already sundered its businesses internally into two divisions ahead of a formal separation.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for sundered
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Battlefield injuries, like severed limbs, are likewise rewarded with sums that most soldiers could not earn in regular jobs.—
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Professor Orloff is a severed head that floats in a jar.—
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Iran’s opposition is weak, divided, largely in exile.—
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But our fragmented media landscape and the dominance of social media have left us polarized and divided.—
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And the oversized top has a split hem that falls below the bum.—
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The split vote denied the motion, which would've sent it to Ocean City Council for the next steps.—
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Per the Hindu, Das' head had been separated from his body in the attack.—
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This design consists of an aluminum (Al) foil anode current collector, an S8 cathode, sodium dicyanamide (NaDCA) in a non-flammable chloroaluminate electrolyte, separated with a glass fiber.—
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Instead of crimps, Paxton's honey blonde locks were styled in romantic waves and with parted curtain bangs.—
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The audience watched quietly until Matthew McConaughey, sporting a parted blond bowl cut and ferrying students to some end-of-year fun, delivered a signature bit of dialogue.—
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As Werenski noted after the game, they get disconnected in games like these.—
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Parents who are disconnected from the labor market may not spend additional income in the same ways — or to the same effect — as working parents.—
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What frustrated her most was that the issue refused to stay resolved.—
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Since then, attorneys and judges have overseen multiple lenient plea deals and case dismissals, while local prosecutors reviewed hundreds of active and resolved cases that Tran investigated.—
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Helen, who has the most solicitous husband in the world, believes that divorced people give up too easily.—
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The two divorced in 1962, in part because Bardot had an affair with Glenn Ford.—
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“Sundered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sundered. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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