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fragment

[frag-muhnt, frag-muhnt, -ment, frag-ment] / ˈfræg mənt, ˈfræg mənt, -mɛnt, frægˈmɛnt /




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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

The firm argued that bypassing traditional exchange rules could fragment liquidity, or scatter trading activity across different platforms, and undermine investor protections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

By comparing the fragment with fossils from related dinosaurs, researchers were able to estimate what this long-extinct animal might have looked like and how it lived.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Like a colossal junkyard, the swamps and back lots of Connecticut flashed past, one broken-down fragment bearing no relation to another.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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 researchers also discovered that the shape of the surviving rock can influence where smaller fragments eventually land.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The tree fragments lying in BioFiltro’s beds seemed to serve a beneficial purpose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

It stung a little, and fragments of earth fell down his collar and under his clothes.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

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

Without this protein, the mitochondrial network becomes fragmented.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

But ap Iorwerth said Wales was living with a "confused" and "increasingly fragmented system".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The door, meagerly, opened and he saw within the apartment a fragmented and misaligned shrinking figure, a girl who cringed and slunk away and yet held onto the door, as if for physical support.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

"By fragmenting human societies across the landscape, malaria contributed to the population structure we see today. Climate and physical barriers were not the only forces shaping where human populations could live."

From Science Daily ● May 3, 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

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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