bifurcate
verb (used with or without object)
to divide or fork into two branches.
bifurcates
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present tense formof bifurcate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Finally, speciation refers to branching, when one species bifurcates into two different species.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 16, 2019
In Arizona, west of Nogales, the border wall bifurcates the lands of the Tohono O’odham people, who live on the second-largest reservation in the United States.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
Picture it: In the actors’ quarters a single hallway bifurcates six small dressing rooms, housing our cast of 26.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2014
I-90 bifurcates the town; the overpass allows pedestrians to cross from one side to the other.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2014
The main thoracic artery bifurcates near the insertion of M. costi-sternalis, the branches traveling posteriad on both sides of the muscle.
From Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae by Marion Anne Jenkinson
