fracturing

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Reigning champion Marc Marquez - Alex's brother - missed the race after fracturing his foot in France last weekend.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

Asian countries are rationing fuel, governments are emptying their crude-oil stockpiles, airlines are canceling thousands of flights, and Middle East alliances are fracturing.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Reagan amid the tumult and tectonic fracturing of the 1960s Civil Rights and Free Speech movements.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

This particular form of instability—in which electoral outcomes haven’t caught up with voters’ frustrations—has long plagued polities on the Continent, where proportional voting systems accelerate the fracturing of authority in parliaments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

I tried to get my mind around this shocking bit of information, but the music and the girl and the insanity of the situation were sort of fracturing my thoughts.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx