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“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

“Without maritime trade, supply chains would fragment and the global economy as we know it would come to a sudden halt,” the group said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Research has found the construction of roads can fragment habitats and increase erosion and sediment pollution in drinking water, among other potentially harmful outcomes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 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

There was very little electrical activity in his brain, but now and then the flatlines gave a spooky twitch, as if something continued to struggle inside the boy, some destroyed fragment of his soul.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

Garbo and his colleagues noted that Petermann ice islands and the fragments they produce can travel long distances through Arctic waters.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

It was fragments from the pistol butt which enabled police to identify it as a Luger P06.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

A new confidence had been born in me when I burnt that page and scattered the 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

If that happens, he said, “the world will be fragmented, and it’ll be very dangerous for us.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 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

Instead, one might guess that they once had a more nearly continuous distribution, which became fragmented as speakers of other language families expanded or induced Miao-Yao speakers to abandon their tongues.

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

Capturing a comet in the act of fragmenting is something the team had long hoped to achieve.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026

But they haven’t fully priced in how the importance of domestic energy infrastructure will grow in a fragmenting world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

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

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