fragment
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Lynch’s impulse to fragment takes a more playful, if morbid, turn in the “Kits.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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
Whether it burns—and how badly—depends mostly on people: how much fuel we let accumulate, how quickly we detect and douse flames, and how much land we farm, fragment and pave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
After I finally made the cut and handed it to Songololo, she looked at my hand and kissed it, knocking the fragment to the soil.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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But fragments of video and satellite imagery from before and after the disaster have begun to reveal the scale of the destruction.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Across Nepal's flood disaster zone, survivors are returning to villages reduced to mud and debris, searching for belongings, documents and fragments of lives swept away in minutes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Once there, the fragments can attach to proteins associated with disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Standard methods for assembling long DNA molecules typically use restriction enzymes to make cuts and T4 DNA ligase to connect the resulting fragments.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
What if the glass fragments could be pieced together into the original cups, vases, dishes, and other glassware?
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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"A core issue is fragmented governance, not a lack of technical capability."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“This is a devastating blowback to people who have been forced to navigate the fragmented and flawed federal emergency response.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Many diamond frogs live in forests that are becoming increasingly fragmented by deforestation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
The industry is fragmented, with the vast majority of carriers operating 10 or fewer trucks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
In fact, precisely because Europe was fragmented, Columbus succeeded on his fifth try in persuading one of Europe’s hundreds of princes to sponsor him.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
For the world's emerging market countries, there is another challenge in a fragmenting world economy: What will drive their own growth, if not demand from larger economies?
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
According to the Alma Research Center, they include an advanced interceptor drone, specialist fragmenting anti-drone ammunition, and automatic firing systems with electro-optical sensors.
From BBC ● May 28, 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
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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