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fragment

[frag-muhnt, frag-muhnt, -ment, frag-ment] / ˈfræg mənt, ˈfræg mənt, -mɛnt, frægˈmɛnt /




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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

Instead of disappearing, these materials gradually fragment into increasingly smaller particles, including microplastics and nanoplastics.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Archaeologists from La Trobe University have described 18 newly published hominin fossils from South Africa, including a second skull fragment belonging to Homo erectus.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

We’d fragment into small groups during the day to forage and come back together at night.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

Using these fragments, the scientists were able to partially reconstruct the damaged area.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Their analysis reveals that melting and breaking apart play a much greater role than previously believed in determining how much material a rock loses, how quickly it slows down, and where its fragments eventually land.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Revealing fragments of this information to the public should improve market forecasts of Fed policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The tree fragments lying in BioFiltro’s beds seemed to serve a beneficial purpose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

With a final roar, the giant splintered into a million tiny fragments of darkness.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

By the time the team arrived at the site a good portion of the debris had fragmented and washed away, leaving only a single Y-shaped segment, the university said.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

However, they are fragmented by geography and by ecology: the Isthmus of Panama, only 40 miles wide, virtually transects the Americas geographically, as do the isthmus’s Darien rain forests and the northern Mexican desert ecologically.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Ice masses of this size can remain in the ocean for years, slowly fragmenting into smaller pieces that may become progressively harder to detect and follow.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

According to the Alma Research Center, they include an advanced interceptor drone, specialist fragmenting anti-drone ammunition, and automatic firing systems with electro-optical sensors.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

In a fragmenting postwar global order, the administration sees American security as linked to oil resources in the Western Hemisphere, said Kevin Book, who heads research at energy-research firm ClearView Energy Partners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Planetesimals frequently crash into each other, sometimes merging into larger bodies and sometimes fragmenting into smaller ones.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2025

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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