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fragment

[frag-muhnt, frag-muhnt, -ment, frag-ment] / ˈfræg mənt, ˈfræg mənt, -mɛnt, frægˈmɛnt /




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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

The firm argued that bypassing traditional exchange rules could fragment liquidity, or scatter trading activity across different platforms, and undermine investor protections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Woo whistles, holding up a breadstick fragment in triumph.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

The scientists used a technique involving gentle acid etching to recover tiny protein fragments known as peptides from fossilized tooth enamel.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 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

Alertly Biff picked up fragments of his monologue.

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

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

But our fragmented healthcare system is also a factor in so many of the ills that afflict ordinary American households within the sphere of “affordability.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

As Michael Cox wrote in 1983, “nothing fragmented the completeness, nothing disturbed the balance of Monty James’s personality.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Wildflower meadows are among the UK's most valuable habitats, external, supporting a wide range of insects and wildlife while helping to connect fragmented natural spaces.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

They were the ones we could evolve and sustain through the early millions of years of our evolutionary history, when the total human population was tiny and fragmented.

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

"In a world of infinite choice, audiences are fragmenting, trust is scarce and facts are contested," Brittin said.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

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

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

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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