fragmented

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Ferguson holds a dominant market position in a fragmented industry, enabling over two dozen bolt-on acquisitions in the past four years.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

The lender will have a fragmented board but the majority of directors will have come from election lists that included Lovaglio, which should give them control, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

"I think those of us who use the NHS, the lived experience is one of disconnected, fragmented systems, explaining who you are to a different person on every ward, at the front desk," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Researchers also used digital reconstruction techniques to piece together fragmented bones and better understand their shape and structure.

From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026

However, they are fragmented by geography and by ecology: the Isthmus of Panama, only 40 miles wide, virtually transects the Americas geographically, as do the isthmus’s Darien rain forests and the northern Mexican desert ecologically.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond