湖边社【每日一词】bifurcate - v. （路、河等）分为两支；（使）分岔 adj. 分叉的；分枝的
Definition:
1- transitive verb : to cause to divide into two branches or parts
bifurcate a beam of light
2- intransitive verb: to divide into two branches or parts
The stream bifurcates into two narrow channels.
3- adjective
Examples of bifurcate in a Sentence
1 The stream bifurcated into two narrow winding channels.
2 Those twin approaches still play out in the modern food-media landscape, which often seems bifurcated.—Emily Heil, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
3 Between the sidewalk and the street rose regularly planted silver stalks that bifurcated into blinking parking meters.—William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
4 Equally significant, the PLA sends dozens of Chinese fighter jets into the island’s air defense identification zone on a near daily basis, sometimes crossing the line that bifurcates the Taiwan Strait.—David M. Finkelstein, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2023