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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

The fragile consensus on flattery was starting to splinter, a trend captured by Britain’s MI6.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026

The 21st Century saw dance music splinter into even more sub-genres, providing something for everyone to move to.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

I picked at the doorpost with a fingernail and a long splinter the size of my palm peeled away with little resistance.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

He loved running down the wooden floors of Windsor Castle with his cousins when he was younger trying to avoid getting splinters.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

Pitchers build arm strength by pitching, not by growing splinters on their collective butts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2025

But she plays the more shadowed of the siblings without any of the flat spikes and splinters of pure evil that inform most of the hostile beings in this universe.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2024

It was filled with icy splinters, so many I couldn't see through my goggles.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

“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

“Things hadn’t splintered out into a zillion niche locations just quite yet,” Adkins said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 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

Its army eventually withdrew and the Islamist militants left behind splintered and turned against each other.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

It was heavy, and I bumped against the doorframe, scraping my knuckles on the splintered wood.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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

Dramatic video footage from Long Beach shows massive waves slamming into the shoreline and splintering the wood on the boardwalk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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

Price’s thesis is simple, but unsettling: modern digital life — especially social media — is turbocharging our anxieties and splintering our attention spans, making what she calls “True Fun” feel increasingly elusive.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025

They never acknowledged one another, not even in the village church, with its six splintering pews.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García