fragment
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Alongside the shoulder blade, archaeologists recovered a nearly complete right hand, two ribs from the left side, a fragment of a right rib, and seven teeth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Front-runner “La Bola Negra” weaves together the fragment of an iconic poet’s real-life, unfinished final play with another author’s play about the death of that poet’s real-life lover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
"This phenomenon is one possible explanation for the discovery of a large metal fragment in a palm oil plantation in Sampit," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
By comparing the fragment with fossils from related dinosaurs, researchers were able to estimate what this long-extinct animal might have looked like and how it lived.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
A piercing blue eye had looked out of the mirror fragment, and then help had come.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Using these fragments, the scientists were able to partially reconstruct the damaged area.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
The pieces that ultimately survive to reach Earth's surface began as relatively large fragments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
The tree fragments lying in BioFiltro’s beds seemed to serve a beneficial purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The hypnotic hook on “I Give Everything I Have 2 U” comes from a late-’60s soul obscurity, and then the singers’ voices are clipped into tiny fragments and transformed into a bouncing rhythm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
People were everywhere; some working in the quarry itself, others scattered about the hillside; the heftier among the men splitting boulders, the women and children chipping fragments off the larger stones.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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As Michael Cox wrote in 1983, “nothing fragmented the completeness, nothing disturbed the balance of Monty James’s personality.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
From her vantage point, the current system is fragmented with no clear authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Without this protein, the mitochondrial network becomes fragmented.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
"Some have funded worthwhile projects. Some have brought genuine benefits. But, taken together, they have made the landscape more complicated, more fragmented and more difficult to navigate."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Again, my recall of that visit was fragmented, and what was left behind had nothing to do with the doctor.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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It said hundreds of vessels are now part of shadow fleets that evade sanctions and sail without insurance, fragmenting supply chains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
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
According to the Alma Research Center, they include an advanced interceptor drone, specialist fragmenting anti-drone ammunition, and automatic firing systems with electro-optical sensors.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
"By fragmenting human societies across the landscape, malaria contributed to the population structure we see today. Climate and physical barriers were not the only forces shaping where human populations could live."
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2026
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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