fragmentary
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“The vogue when I was writing ‘Dept. of Speculation’ was for realist doorstopper books that were self-consciously about big ideas,” explains the novelist, who published her now-classic fragmentary novel in 2014.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
The species had originally been named several years earlier based on fragmentary remains, but the new skeleton provided a far clearer view of the animal's unusual body structure.
From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026
Morrison seems to have taken particular inspiration from the omissions and evasions of Faulkner’s fragmentary storytelling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
The full picture isn't clear, but the emails give fragmentary glimpses, with mentions of opportunities and connections in China, the Gulf and Libya.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026
The kouros it most resembled, it turned out, was a smaller, fragmentary statue that was found by a British art historian in Switzerland in 1990.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing fragmentary
Novel Study: Fahrenheit 451, Part III
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Parts 1 & 2 Vocabulary (Unit 1)
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