splinter
Example Sentences
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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
To make my characters more interesting than that, I wanted them to have moments of self-awareness that would stick like a splinter in their brains and not let them off the hook.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Thrown completely off course, the São José, dragging its anchor, was thrown up onto huge rocks and began to splinter apart.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing splinter
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