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The ESL was a splinter league formed by 12 of Europe's biggest clubs, including six from the Premier League.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

The bloc of governors would have to splinter before a majority of Fed voters in favor of a hike could carry the day.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

President Bola Tinubu said the attackers were militants from Ansaru, a Boko Haram splinter group known to operate in central Nigeria, extending into the southwest.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

To understand this historic shift, The Wall Street Journal spoke to heads of government, their ministers and top aides to reconstruct the closed-door meetings where the alliance began to splinter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

She didn’t look at the carved word, or the splinter of moon, or the blue and green houses.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate

I also wanted to understand if my treatment, which forced me to excavate painful childhood memories lodged beneath the surface, like splinters the skin had long healed over, could help others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Navigating around the crater, Al-Ahmad trudged into the blown-out remains of the hall, his feet crunching on an underbrush of glass, wood splinters and insulation.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

Pitchers build arm strength by pitching, not by growing splinters on their collective butts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2025

"Fortunately, it was a small injury from plastic splinters from the right window."

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

Where it hit the earth, where it smashed into daggers and thorns and invisible splinters, that's my ankle.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Other chapters, written in splintered, sharply poeticized fragments, assume Gelsomina’s point of view.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Its army eventually withdrew and the Islamist militants left behind splintered and turned against each other.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

And like all of television, reality is facing splintered and waning audiences so the decibel level of that conversation-sparking is often dialed way up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

And earlier this month, seven of those MPs splintered off from the party in protest at the authoritarian management of long-standing leader Wilders.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

The caulk Arturo had tried to apply lay splintered in the seams.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

The splintering of mass media, the confluence of a cultural icon whose priorities are so admirable — the zeitgeist will simply never again support someone so pure of heart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Now this very coalition is splintering as his support spirals downward.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026

Individual investors kicked off 2026 by taking a page from the playbook of global central banks and stockpiling gold as a hedge against a splintering world order.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026

“Even if there is some post-crackdown splintering, the nucleus of the regime now has even more incentive to stick together.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

I chop more wood, splintering it into stakes.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes