fragmentation
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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
“The prospect of regime collapse or fragmentation or degradation even in Tehran, especially for these resistance groups, is existential, because this is their main source of power,” Mansour said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
“Nexstar’s influence is much diminished from its heyday, thanks to audience fragmentation, so it does need to consolidate to have any kind of future on its own terms,” TVNewsCheck editor Michael Depp told me.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026
"Those pock marks are witness marks of a fragmentation munition," an analyst from McKenzie Intelligence said.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
The greater geographic fragmentation of the Americas compared with Eurasia is also reflected in distributions of languages.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing fragmentation
Give Me a Break!: Fract and Frag
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Jimmy Carter, Speech from July 15, 1979
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Jimmy Carter on "The Crisis of Confidence" (1979)
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