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
By measuring how different solid rocks slow down and fragment during atmospheric entry, scientists can better understand the processes that govern these potentially dangerous asteroid airbursts.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 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
His fingers moved absentmindedly to the little pouch still strung around his neck, through which he could feel the jagged mirror fragment in which he had been sure he had seen Dumbledore’s eye.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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
And so Valencia, in a makeshift recording studio, started dubbing fragments of popular Hollywood films into Quechua.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 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
To help the nanoparticles reach the correct immune cells, the scientists covered their surfaces with antibody fragments.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026
The next case housed a Canyon Diablo meteorite, one of many fragments of the asteroid that created the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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Their actions undermine principles that date to 1648 and the Peace of Westphalia, when Europe pioneered the concept of state sovereignty to halt fighting between fragmented, overlapping and often-contested Church, feudal and other political authorities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 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
Without this protein, the mitochondrial network becomes fragmented.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
The dim light fragmented and died away creeping up the eastern wall.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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"By fragmenting human societies across the landscape, malaria contributed to the population structure we see today. Climate and physical barriers were not the only forces shaping where human populations could live."
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2026
That is fragmenting commerce and fueling price volatility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
Planetesimals frequently crash into each other, sometimes merging into larger bodies and sometimes fragmenting into smaller ones.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2025
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
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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