balkanized

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of balkanize

comparative more Balkanized · superlative most Balkanized · alternative Balkanised

1. governmentFractured, divided.

   I often think about this whenever I’m in the hyperpartisan, Balkanised world of social media full as it is of people calling Tories scum (and worse) and collecting a bountiful harvest of retweets and likes on the back of it.

   2023 July 17, Rhymer Rigby, “Sick of this Conservative government? That shouldn’t stop you having Tory friends”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   What was once always on the brink of something bigger has become Balkanized, and the process of genre subdivision has hidden away bands in ever tinier and more obscure pigeonholes, affecting even the best and most widely known among them.

   2009 December 31, Ben Sisario, “When Indie-Rock Genres Outnumber the Bands”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

alternative Balkanised

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of Balkanize