fragmentary
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Only about a dozen, mostly fragmentary, letters survive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Compared with neighboring areas such as Iberia in south-western Europe or Athens in the eastern Mediterranean, archaeological evidence was often fragmentary.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Its scenes are remote, fragmentary and, like the melancholic king, perversely “expert in wasting everyone’s time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
"The first remains of Kank were discovered in 2018, but were too fragmentary to be identified as a new species," he adds.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
He described cover names, fragmentary messages, traces of the work of Soviet agents operating deep under cover in the United States.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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