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Whether it burns—and how badly—depends mostly on people: how much fuel we let accumulate, how quickly we detect and douse flames, and how much land we farm, fragment and pave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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

“What we’ve seen is only a fragment of what information there might be, because not all of the government records from phones have been turned over,” Joachín said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Using Leah Mascia's reading of the text, Professor Adiego determined that the fragment comes from the "Catalogue of Ships" in Book II of Homer's Iliad.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

Even when the letter fragment is back on the floor of my locker my hand still feels the filth, the invisible sick on my fingers.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Proteins are generally expected to break down over very long periods of time, so researchers still need to understand how collagen or fragments of it could persist inside fossils for tens of millions of years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

But information arrives in fragments: a barcode result here, a recall notice there, a corrected FDA finding, a corporate statement, a congressional inquiry.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Balloon fragments are the marine debris most likely to kill seabirds that eat it, according to a recent study, external.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The separated fan blade resulted in damage to portions of the engine’s cover and sent engine fragments flying, striking the airplane’s fuselage and its horizontal stabilizer, according to the report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Jake tore the note to pieces and rolled the fragments between his sweating palms.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Hichilema is seeking a second term against a fragmented field of opposition candidates.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

Women’s baseball has been so fragmented that she usually sees other players only at national tournaments and occasionally when some, like Mo’ne Davis, have a stint with the Bananas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

But no such revival was forthcoming: The conservative movement fragmented after Kirk’s death, divided by a host of wild conspiracy theories over the “real story” behind the killing.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

So far, Moen has found that existing research on the topic is fragmented.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

Those and other draconian measures must have contributed to the spread of North China’s Sino-Tibetan languages over most of China, and to reducing the Miao-Yao and other language families to their present fragmented distributions.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

"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

That is fragmenting commerce and fueling price volatility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Catherine says smartphones and gadgets have become a "constant distraction, fragmenting our focus" and undermining the time that families spend together.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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