There was enough interest, though, for Sky Germany’s coverage of the first round of [soccer] games in this bleak new [Coronavirus] world to draw in six million viewers, a record, each of them watching from home, atomized and all but alone, a tribe still bound by its colors but unable to gather under its standard. (Rory Smith, “This is What Watching Soccer Looks Like Now,” The New York Times 05/18/2020.)
When used in the sense above, this word can also be synonymous with fragment, divide, segregate, split (apart) and alone.
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