fragmented
Example Sentences
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Firms see opportunities to consolidate the fragmented industries and resell combined companies for a profit.
Among the world's most endangered macaques, these forest primates now survive in small, fragmented populations as human activity eats into their habitat.
From BBC
The regulatory architecture is vast, fragmented and largely incoherent.
Montana should benefit from the fact that the market for parts is “deeply fragmented and highly specialized.”
From Barron's
Rapino played down the comment, testifying that he meant Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, successfully took a fragmented industry and “put the pieces together to make it a global, attractive business for artists.”
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