fragment
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Alongside the shoulder blade, archaeologists recovered a nearly complete right hand, two ribs from the left side, a fragment of a right rib, and seven teeth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Front-runner “La Bola Negra” weaves together the fragment of an iconic poet’s real-life, unfinished final play with another author’s play about the death of that poet’s real-life lover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
"This phenomenon is one possible explanation for the discovery of a large metal fragment in a palm oil plantation in Sampit," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
By comparing the fragment with fossils from related dinosaurs, researchers were able to estimate what this long-extinct animal might have looked like and how it lived.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
In that glacier of words grinding toward the twentieth century, Prendergast’s card was a single fragment of mica glinting with lunacy, pleading to be picked up and pocketed.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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Using these fragments, the scientists were able to partially reconstruct the damaged area.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
It can also feel like a collection of delightful fragments in search of a through line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
This last major disruption produces a bright flare and sends fragments scattering at greater relative speeds.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
The tree fragments lying in BioFiltro’s beds seemed to serve a beneficial purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The fragments of melody he could make out were strange and tantalizing, but she sang so quietly he could hear next to nothing at all.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
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From her vantage point, the current system is fragmented with no clear authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Without this protein, the mitochondrial network becomes fragmented.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
At present the sewage network around Windermere is fragmented, with homes served by a mix of public wastewater treatment works and privately owned treatment facilities and septic tanks.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Current polling shows that the Israeli leader would likely fail to secure a ruling coalition, though it isn’t clear if Israel’s fragmented opposition will be able to do so either.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Another fragmented language group is the Austroasiatic family, whose most widely spoken languages are Vietnamese and Cambodian.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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"By fragmenting human societies across the landscape, malaria contributed to the population structure we see today. Climate and physical barriers were not the only forces shaping where human populations could live."
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2026
In a fragmenting postwar global order, the administration sees American security as linked to oil resources in the Western Hemisphere, said Kevin Book, who heads research at energy-research firm ClearView Energy Partners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Planetesimals frequently crash into each other, sometimes merging into larger bodies and sometimes fragmenting into smaller ones.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2025
The IMF however warned that trade diversion and rerouting -- while offering short-term resilience -- are costly and risk fragmenting global supply chains.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
When I open my eyes, the world looks slightly fractured, and it takes a minute to realize that the sun must be well up and the glasses fragmenting my vision.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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