fragment

“Not a bad place,” Mr. Adams joked, explaining how he refashioned the concept of a parody mass, in which a fragment of an earlier work serves as the foundation of something new.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Lynch’s impulse to fragment takes a more playful, if morbid, turn in the “Kits.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

A newly single writer and her daughter arrive in Sicily, carrying a fragment of a Roman ruin that they hope to return to its original site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

And 40 years ago, while studying one such bed for her PhD, Prof Christine Maggs found a fragment of pink-striped seaweed living on maerl she had never seen before.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

To a greater extent than a human in a similar gathering, each rabbit, as he pursued his own fragment, was sensitive to the trend of the whole.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

There are large fragments of salt-eaten machinery littering the shore, relics of the island’s martial heyday.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

"She used this drive to make sense of ancient life through fragments of bone, bringing it to life once again," they said.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Across Nepal's flood disaster zone, survivors are returning to villages reduced to mud and debris, searching for belongings, documents and fragments of lives swept away in minutes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Not long after the intact vessel was discovered, students found fragments from a second, much larger piece of pottery that looked very different.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

Whereas to me it was a bombshell, exploding in a thousand fragments.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

The Emmy Awards have become a streamlined affair in recent years, as voters, sifting through a fragmented TV landscape, inevitably land on a small set of favorite programs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Casey’s has scale in an otherwise fragmented convenience-store industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Many diamond frogs live in forests that are becoming increasingly fragmented by deforestation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

"We know where elephant corridors and habitats are -- and they are being destroyed and fragmented at an unprecedented pace," Bindra said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

By the time Fadi headed toward the art studio after school, he’d pieced together what had happened through fragmented conversations he’d heard throughout the day.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

Ice masses of this size can remain in the ocean for years, slowly fragmenting into smaller pieces that may become progressively harder to detect and follow.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

For the world's emerging market countries, there is another challenge in a fragmenting world economy: What will drive their own growth, if not demand from larger economies?

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

That is fragmenting commerce and fueling price volatility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Prof Weissbourd points to a broader fragmenting of communities too.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 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