shard
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An autopsy report on an Arizona man who died in a crash noted a large shard in his neck that had a DTN serial number inscribed on it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
She seemed to hold no mistrust toward me and my halting Spanish, no shard of suspicion that I could use to create the usual distance around myself.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026
From his pocket, Serhiy Melnyk pulls out a small rusty shard, wrapped neatly in paper.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025
So no matter what kind of shard she portrays herself as Sam to be, under it, you feel that vulnerability of Chlöe, and I think that audiences will respond to it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
His eyes fell warily to the mirror shard again as if it might confirm a terrible truth, and Hazel tossed it aside.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
Juan Felipe Giraldo, the 24-year-old buried amid the shards of a ruined hotel, is supposed to get married on Sunday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
In the aboveground labs, they used artificial intelligence and digital technologies to reassemble the millions of shards into recognizable forms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Police were shooing everyone away from the high-rises as shards of glass were still falling out of broken windows.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Researchers carefully sift through dirt samples and use specialized tools called micromanipulators to isolate the tiny shards.
From Science Daily ● May 11, 2026
Others, perhaps most of the clay pots, from the way it appeared, cracked and broke into shards in the crude heat and were left in clumps in the desert.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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