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fragmentation

[frag-muhn-tey-shuhn] / ˌfræg mənˈteɪ ʃən /
NOUN
disintegration
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A story of fragmentation, volatility, multi-party politics and records tumbling.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

The fragmentation of media, the decline of trust in institutions and the rise of personality-driven content have all altered the landscape.

From Salon • May 2, 2026

Yet it is precisely this fragmentation that grants the epic its peculiar potency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

In another, known as fragmentation, the explosion creates a disk of material around the collapsing core, and clumps in that disk eventually form a small neutron star, similar to how planets form.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

This activity, curiously, remained nestled close to the uranium target, unlike other fission products, which typically were driven some distance away by the energy of nuclear fragmentation.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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