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fragment

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




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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

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

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

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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