fragment
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“What we’ve seen is only a fragment of what information there might be, because not all of the government records from phones have been turned over,” Joachín said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The workarounds don’t fragment the bloc because eventually all member states can join.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Constitutional privacy is not lost because the government chooses to invade it one fragment at a time.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
One widely used approach defines microplastics as any fragment of plastic that is less than 5mm - about the width of a wedding band.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Could a rare but natural event, the impact of a sizable cometary fragment, trigger a nuclear war?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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The laser pulses caused the molecules to break into charged fragments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Why do some dreams feel so vivid that they seem almost real, while others unfold as confusing fragments that are difficult to remember or understand?
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Going through the building's cavernous basement – which once housed two restaurants – crews found fragments of a wooden, revolving door dating back to the 1910s.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Dr Jeremy Penner, who also travelled with the fragments, said the stars wanted to see where "the names of their characters were in the texts".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Would there be many dried fragments, like squashing a harmattan-dried leaf?
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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People who were more likely to experience mind-wandering while awake tended to report dreams that changed quickly and felt more fragmented.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
But no such revival was forthcoming: The conservative movement fragmented after Kirk’s death, divided by a host of wild conspiracy theories over the “real story” behind the killing.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
“It’s hard to see that happening again in the fragmented viewing marketplace that is upon us.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
“In the United States, we don’t actually have a long-term-care system. We have a fragmented collection of ways of caring for people who require care.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 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
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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
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
Catherine says smartphones and gadgets have become a "constant distraction, fragmenting our focus" and undermining the time that families spend together.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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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