fragment
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BPC-157 and TB-500, a synthetic peptide fragment that in animal studies has been associated with wound healing and tissue repair, are a particularly popular pairing known as the “Wolverine stack.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 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
These include a fragment from Byron—only a few scribbled pages, set in a Turkish cemetery, about the mysterious Augustus Darvell—and a long story called “The Vampyre” by John William Polidori, Byron’s former doctor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Like a colossal junkyard, the swamps and back lots of Connecticut flashed past, one broken-down fragment bearing no relation to another.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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Over the course of “Bitter Christmas,” we spy fragments of Raúl’s life, but the film primarily stays with Elsa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Taken together, these photos and emojis and sentence fragments represented a schematic for the machine that had kept me alive.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026
Looters had smashed the statue into thousands of fragments at several points during the 20th century but it was finally restored to its former glory this year.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
That recall involved a new line of frozen pizzas, which the company recalled because of the possible presence of metal-mesh fragments caused by a faulty screen at a third-party flour mill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Would there be many dried fragments, like squashing a harmattan-dried leaf?
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The aim of the plan is to create Italy’s third-largest banking group after Intesa Sanpaolo and UniCredit, and is the latest in a series of attempts at dealmaking to consolidate the country’s fragmented financial sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
The fragmented vote leaves many municipalities without an outright majority, forcing parties to form coalitions at the local level.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Early on as a council member, Raman told me she was sorting out the fragmented response to homelessness, having identified overlapping services, a lack of accountability, and broken lines of communication and coordination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Without this protein, the mitochondrial network becomes fragmented.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Now contrast those events in China with what happened when fleets of exploration began to sail from politically fragmented Europe.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The researchers found that rocks can start fragmenting when the air pressure acting on their leading surfaces reaches only about one-fifth of the strength measured in meteorites recovered on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
"In a world of infinite choice, audiences are fragmenting, trust is scarce and facts are contested," Brittin said.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
It said hundreds of vessels are now part of shadow fleets that evade sanctions and sail without insurance, fragmenting supply chains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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
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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