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He had previously told the court the group was a splinter of the online Irish Citizens Army which communicated on the messaging app Signal, RTÉ has reported.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

President Bola Tinubu said the attackers were militants from Ansaru, a Boko Haram splinter group known to operate in central Nigeria, extending into the southwest.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 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

He felt a rattling pressure of uncertainty, making his head splinter with pain.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner

It might be best not to think about splinters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

As attention splinters and our realities feel increasingly fractured, it makes sense that Coachella would begin to mirror that condition, each version just real enough to feel like the whole thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026

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

Instead, as though alive itself, it poured in a thin yellow slab of brightness from under the door, illuminating the dust and splinters of the hall floor.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

“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

When he climbed the heap of slurry, he saw splintered furniture and ruined papers, but one thing remained intact.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026

I tried joining in, to forget about my terrible, awful, absurd idea, but when I sang, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” my voice splintered in my throat and came out a garbled, high-pitched mess.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

The estate of Wuthering Heights is foreboding and dark, with rocks splintering through the walls, while Linton’s Thrushcross Grange bears a Victorian aesthetic, containing the outside world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

Individual investors kicked off 2026 by taking a page from the playbook of global central banks and stockpiling gold as a hedge against a splintering world order.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 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

I cringed, but instead of a terrible crash, there was just a dull splintering of wood.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss