fragment
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Whether it burns—and how badly—depends mostly on people: how much fuel we let accumulate, how quickly we detect and douse flames, and how much land we farm, fragment and pave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
And 40 years ago, while studying one such bed for her PhD, Prof Christine Maggs found a fragment of pink-striped seaweed living on maerl she had never seen before.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Simply comparing the fragment counts allowed the researchers to tell the two mirror-image forms apart.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
“What we’ve seen is only a fragment of what information there might be, because not all of the government records from phones have been turned over,” Joachín said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
At the opposite extreme, the largest Polynesian island, New Zealand, is an old, geologically diverse, continental fragment of Gondwanaland, offering a range of mineral resources, including commercially exploitable iron, coal, gold, and jade.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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But fragments of video and satellite imagery from before and after the disaster have begun to reveal the scale of the destruction.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Across Nepal's flood disaster zone, survivors are returning to villages reduced to mud and debris, searching for belongings, documents and fragments of lives swept away in minutes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
The newly redesigned fragments, called intrabodies, have instead been engineered to remain stable within cells, allowing them to target proteins involved in neurodegenerative conditions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Once there, the fragments can attach to proteins associated with disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Only a very few fragments of his poems have come down to us.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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The industry is fragmented, with the vast majority of carriers operating 10 or fewer trucks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Now, he says, they have a "fragmented portfolio spanning social impact, entertainment and lifestyle, which has made it difficult to know exactly what their brand stands for".
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
"We know where elephant corridors and habitats are -- and they are being destroyed and fragmented at an unprecedented pace," Bindra said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
As an artist, she explores the experience of a fragmented family history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Not only do scientists need to find ways to protect panda habitats—and grow them through reforestation and bamboo planting—they also need to reconnect the fragmented areas wherever possible.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
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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
Eliot or novelists such as James Joyce, whom they viewed as fragmenting English-speaking culture and twisting tradition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
For decades, biologists have studied how cities affect wildlife by altering food supplies, fragmenting habitats and polluting the environment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 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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