fragment
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Front-runner “La Bola Negra” weaves together the fragment of an iconic poet’s real-life, unfinished final play with another author’s play about the death of that poet’s real-life lover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
"This phenomenon is one possible explanation for the discovery of a large metal fragment in a palm oil plantation in Sampit," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Instead of disappearing, these materials gradually fragment into increasingly smaller particles, including microplastics and nanoplastics.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Every grog tempered vessel examined by the researchers contained what is known as multigenerational grog, in which one fragment of grog contains an even older piece of grog inside it.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Woo whistles, holding up a breadstick fragment in triumph.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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It can also feel like a collection of delightful fragments in search of a through line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The pieces that ultimately survive to reach Earth's surface began as relatively large fragments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
The measurements allowed the scientists to distinguish different uranium oxide phases within the radioactive fragments, revealing details that had previously been inaccessible.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
The tree fragments lying in BioFiltro’s beds seemed to serve a beneficial purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The other main goal of the 2017 expedition was to see if any other metal fragments that may have been part of the Antikythera Mechanism could be found.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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As Michael Cox wrote in 1983, “nothing fragmented the completeness, nothing disturbed the balance of Monty James’s personality.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
From her vantage point, the current system is fragmented with no clear authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Wildflower meadows are among the UK's most valuable habitats, external, supporting a wide range of insects and wildlife while helping to connect fragmented natural spaces.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Without this protein, the mitochondrial network becomes fragmented.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Pollard’s injuries, involving fragmented bones that ground together each time he moved, were agonizing, and medicine offered few practical solutions.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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"In a world of infinite choice, audiences are fragmenting, trust is scarce and facts are contested," Brittin said.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Ice masses of this size can remain in the ocean for years, slowly fragmenting into smaller pieces that may become progressively harder to detect and follow.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 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
Planetesimals frequently crash into each other, sometimes merging into larger bodies and sometimes fragmenting into smaller ones.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 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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