fragment
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One widely used approach defines microplastics as any fragment of plastic that is less than 5mm - about the width of a wedding band.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026
Roche’s anti-amyloid antibody trontinemab has a fragment that mimics the natural iron-shuttling molecule known as transferrin.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
“Whereas if you only have a tiny fragment, it’s like doing a crossword puzzle. You have to argue, to research, and to reconstruct the entire object.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
It’s a cracked mirror, with each fragment revealing a different, distorted image of the human psyche — and it’s really funny, too.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
But Ratchett certainly received one letter of a very different character—the one containing a reference to the Armstrong baby, a fragment of which we found in his compartment.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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