fragment
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Front-runner “La Bola Negra” weaves together the fragment of an iconic poet’s real-life, unfinished final play with another author’s play about the death of that poet’s real-life lover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
"This phenomenon is one possible explanation for the discovery of a large metal fragment in a palm oil plantation in Sampit," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
Every bleached fragment that touched its healthy counterpart recovered completely within seven weeks.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Every grog tempered vessel examined by the researchers contained what is known as multigenerational grog, in which one fragment of grog contains an even older piece of grog inside it.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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The researchers also discovered that the shape of the surviving rock can influence where smaller fragments eventually land.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
The more extensively it fragments, the faster it loses speed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
The tree fragments lying in BioFiltro’s beds seemed to serve a beneficial purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Roughly half the cuts are interludes that last a minute or less—track listings vary according to format—and many of these are cut-up and pieced-together fragments of spoken material and sound effects from ads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Around the world, experts tried to piece together the fragments of information they did have in order to form a picture of what was happening.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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As Michael Cox wrote in 1983, “nothing fragmented the completeness, nothing disturbed the balance of Monty James’s personality.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
From her vantage point, the current system is fragmented with no clear authority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
Without this protein, the mitochondrial network becomes fragmented.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
"Some have funded worthwhile projects. Some have brought genuine benefits. But, taken together, they have made the landscape more complicated, more fragmented and more difficult to navigate."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
They were the ones we could evolve and sustain through the early millions of years of our evolutionary history, when the total human population was tiny and fragmented.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The researchers found that rocks can start fragmenting when the air pressure acting on their leading surfaces reaches only about one-fifth of the strength measured in meteorites recovered on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
For the world's emerging market countries, there is another challenge in a fragmenting world economy: What will drive their own growth, if not demand from larger economies?
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
"By fragmenting human societies across the landscape, malaria contributed to the population structure we see today. Climate and physical barriers were not the only forces shaping where human populations could live."
From Science Daily ● May 3, 2026
Eliot or novelists such as James Joyce, whom they viewed as fragmenting English-speaking culture and twisting tradition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
When I open my eyes, the world looks slightly fractured, and it takes a minute to realize that the sun must be well up and the glasses fragmenting my vision.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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