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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

These include a fragment from Byron—only a few scribbled pages, set in a Turkish cemetery, about the mysterious Augustus Darvell—and a long story called “The Vampyre” by John William Polidori, Byron’s former doctor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

All we see of this is the odd stump, the fly struggling on the porch floor of the summer house in October, the fragment on the highway.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

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

That recall involved a new line of frozen pizzas, which the company recalled because of the possible presence of metal-mesh fragments caused by a faulty screen at a third-party flour mill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Just like that, the sharp, horrible fragments of a memory returned to her like pieces of broken pottery.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

The 11th-century Investiture Controversy left behind a weakened Holy Roman Empire, a fragmented Italy and centuries of European division, at a moment when unity was desperately needed against the Saracens and Turks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Without this protein, the mitochondrial network becomes fragmented.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The Americas, despite their large aggregate area, were fragmented by geography and ecology and functioned effectively as several poorly connected smaller continents.

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

The researchers found that rocks can start fragmenting when the air pressure acting on their leading surfaces reaches only about one-fifth of the strength measured in meteorites recovered on Earth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 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

Capturing a comet in the act of fragmenting is something the team had long hoped to achieve.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 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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