fragment
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Alongside the shoulder blade, archaeologists recovered a nearly complete right hand, two ribs from the left side, a fragment of a right rib, and seven teeth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
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
Each pair consisted of one healthy fragment and one bleached fragment originating from the same coral animal.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
But Ratchett certainly received one letter of a very different character—the one containing a reference to the Armstrong baby, a fragment of which we found in his compartment.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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"That final disruption sends fragments flying at higher relative speeds," said Jenniskens.
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 hypnotic hook on “I Give Everything I Have 2 U” comes from a late-’60s soul obscurity, and then the singers’ voices are clipped into tiny fragments and transformed into a bouncing rhythm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
While Jacques Cousteau recovered bone fragments during his 1976 Antikythera exploration, the skull was part of the most complete skeleton that had been found at the Antikythera site.
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
What was once a fragmented, hyperlocal market run by small agencies is now seeing the rise of firms that offer end-to-end home-care services and use technology to scale up.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Without this protein, the mitochondrial network becomes fragmented.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Those and other draconian measures must have contributed to the spread of North China’s Sino-Tibetan languages over most of China, and to reducing the Miao-Yao and other language families to their present fragmented distributions.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The researchers found that rocks can start fragmenting when the air pressure acting on their leading surfaces reaches only about one-fifth of the strength measured in meteorites recovered on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 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
Planetesimals frequently crash into each other, sometimes merging into larger bodies and sometimes fragmenting into smaller ones.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2025
The IMF however warned that trade diversion and rerouting -- while offering short-term resilience -- are costly and risk fragmenting global supply chains.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 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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