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The unsplit versions sound more elegant to me, though I can't be sure that my ears haven't been contaminated by a habit of cravenly unsplitting infinitives to avoid spitballs from the Gotcha!

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2014

With the infinitive left unsplit – "The board voted to immediately approve the casino" – it can only be the approval.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2014

Or is he going to stay put and continue the good fight to keep his small pond ecologically sound, his nice nuclear family unsplit?

From Time Magazine Archive

Editors, the best editors, do more than undangle participles and unsplit infinitives.

From Time Magazine Archive

The unsplit versions sound more elegant to me, though I can’t be sure that my ears haven’t been contaminated by a habit of cravenly unsplitting infinitives to avoid spitballs from the Gotcha!

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker