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The bloc of governors would have to splinter before a majority of Fed voters in favor of a hike could carry the day.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

It no longer controls the huge swathes of territory it once did, but it, and other splinter groups, remains active and dangerous.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

While broadcast evening news and morning shows have suffered from viewer drop-offs as audiences splinter and get their information from a range of sources, the declines at CBS have been particularly steep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

That threat could be a pathogen inside the body or something as simple as a splinter.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026

I rub my finger across the wood back and forth harder and harder until a splinter cuts me.

From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine

It might be best not to think about splinters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

I also wanted to understand if my treatment, which forced me to excavate painful childhood memories lodged beneath the surface, like splinters the skin had long healed over, could help others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Navigating around the crater, Al-Ahmad trudged into the blown-out remains of the hall, his feet crunching on an underbrush of glass, wood splinters and insulation.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

Most top directors can’t act to save their lives, which is why they tend to appear as themselves and stick out like splinters.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

Slides and blood tubes were the only glass objects allowed in a hot zone, because of the danger of glass splinters if something broke.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

“Immediately noticeable were the sagging eaves, the multitude of leaks from the roof, the dried out, splintered mahogany and the battered exterior woodwork, which had suffered seven decades of winds from the Sound.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Orator William M. Evarts declared: “I tell you that when the statue of Washington sustains in its firm hand the splintered flag-staff of Fort Sumter, it means something.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

The increasingly splintered ways in which voters seek information, fueled by the rapid changes in technology and media, has kept political campaign strategists on their toes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

When he climbed the heap of slurry, he saw splintered furniture and ruined papers, but one thing remained intact.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026

The caulk Arturo had tried to apply lay splintered in the seams.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

Here’s what’s grabbed my attention: Thursday’s tech takedown, and a market that’s increasingly splintering.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

These surge for tens of kilometers, splintering trees, igniting forests and burying the remnants beneath hot ash and pumice.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The splintering of mass media, the confluence of a cultural icon whose priorities are so admirable — the zeitgeist will simply never again support someone so pure of heart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Even if there is some post-crackdown splintering, the nucleus of the regime now has even more incentive to stick together.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

In English class today, we discussed one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems, and it felt as if something were splintering inside me.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez