branch (out)

as in to part
to go or move in different directions from a central point the vine branched out as it climbed the trellis

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Verb
  • Sitting cross-legged on the floor while her scalp was parted and pulled by a cousin, an auntie, someone who loved her.
    Ruhama Wolle, Vogue, 22 May 2025
  • The crowd parted, and a tiny woman with a big smile emerged.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2025
Verb
  • While they are legally separated, their divorce has stalled due to Girardi's conservatorship and legal troubles.
    Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 4 June 2025
  • Sea to land To separate the sea courses from the land courses, Bost serves a surprise palate cleanser, a dish of orgeat (almond flavored) ice cream topped with N25 Kaluga caviar, almond oil and shavings of aged celery root.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2025
Verb
  • Privacy, security, and ethics are converging, not diverging.
    Diana Spehar, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • But the plot then diverges from Vittorio De Sica’s masterpiece in more ways than one, becoming less of a race-against-the clock scenario than a pointed study of both a character and a place.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • Model parallelism divides the neural network itself across hardware.
    Jitender Jain, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • Americans were also divided over what their separation means for the country, according to the survey, which has a margin of error of 2.1 percentage points.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
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“Branch (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/branch%20%28out%29. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.

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