fragmented

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The Sudan that Mohamed Suleiman now experiences is a different country - fragmented, with its peoples scattered.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

“There’s a lot of caveats, a lot of complexity in an already extremely complex, fragmented and nuanced healthcare system,” Long said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

But Schuerfranz remembers the Apollo era, and thinks some of the magic might be lost in today's more fragmented media environment: "I think it was way more exciting then," she said.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

It is encouraging to see the Austrian bank deploy excess capital to boost its scale in an existing market, though the Romanian banking sector remains fragmented.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

However, they are fragmented by geography and by ecology: the Isthmus of Panama, only 40 miles wide, virtually transects the Americas geographically, as do the isthmus’s Darien rain forests and the northern Mexican desert ecologically.

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