fragmentation
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The fragmentation of media, the decline of trust in institutions and the rise of personality-driven content have all altered the landscape.
From Salon • May 2, 2026
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
“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
Those difficulties of terrain, combined with the state of intermittent warfare that characterized relations between New Guinea bands or villages, account for traditional New Guinea’s linguistic, cultural, and political fragmentation.
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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