fragment
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However, at least one previous researcher detected lead in the ink of a fragment left over from early attempts to physically open the scrolls.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
El Adli discovered the first fossil fragment on Aug. 31.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
These along with a fragment from a Magnum bottle were found on the jeans recovered from the clothing bin.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The WTO examined two ways in which the trading system might fragment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The servant stood up, shaking a fragment in Bandit’s face.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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We do already have some fragments of the Red Planet here on Earth in the form of Martian meteorites.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
In a lab at the Center for DNA Identification in Hanoi last week, technicians carefully cut into bone fragments separated from remains to extract samples for DNA analysis.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Eliot Prize-winning collection of narrative poetry “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”; her haunting accordion-fold elegy, “Nox”; and her widely praised translation of Sappho’s surviving fragments, “If Not, Winter.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
He also cautioned against a rush to judgment, saying: “The public has seen fragments of this case, not the full record. Yet allegations are already being treated as conclusions.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Alertly Biff picked up fragments of his monologue.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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Somalia announced on Thursday that parliamentary and presidential elections would be held next year in the deeply fragmented country that faces a long-running Islamist insurgency.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
This will bring together the running of trains and tracks, ending the current fragmented system.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
"Combined with a fragmented healthcare system, many people do not receive the care they need."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
The company competes in a “very fragmented space,” is more than double the size of its next biggest competitor and has been using AI to optimize pricing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Again, my recall of that visit was fragmented, and what was left behind had nothing to do with the doctor.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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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
Prof Weissbourd points to a broader fragmenting of communities too.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 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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