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
A conservator uncovers the shard, which bears an intense blue figure of a skylark — evidence, at least to the reader, that Alouette’s recipe endured, and a symbol of how both she and Sasha escaped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 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
Spain goalkeeper Santiago Canizares missed the 2002 World Cup after he accidentally smashed a bottle of aftershave and a shard of glass severed a tendon in his right foot.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
When we were children, Hassan and I used to climb the poplar trees in the driveway of my father’s house and annoy our neighbors by reflecting sunlight into their homes with a shard of mirror.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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
That first day, the words were merely sounds in the air, broken like shards of glass, beautiful from a certain angle and jagged from another.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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