fragment
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Another fragment of information appeared when I was not yet 8 years old.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Not a bad place,” Mr. Adams joked, explaining how he refashioned the concept of a parody mass, in which a fragment of an earlier work serves as the foundation of something new.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
And 40 years ago, while studying one such bed for her PhD, Prof Christine Maggs found a fragment of pink-striped seaweed living on maerl she had never seen before.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
“What we’ve seen is only a fragment of what information there might be, because not all of the government records from phones have been turned over,” Joachín said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The nail was stuck in a fragment of board that had once been part of a large animal’s house, and the fragment of board was embedded in a gully full of gravel.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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Instead of working with a nearly complete fossil skeleton, the team had to reconstruct the story from small fragments preserved inside one coprolite.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
The cataloged fragments were held on the concrete floor of Hangar 17 at John F. Kennedy Airport, and the authors describe the tense atmosphere inside the cavernous space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
There are large fragments of salt-eaten machinery littering the shore, relics of the island’s martial heyday.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
"She used this drive to make sense of ancient life through fragments of bone, bringing it to life once again," they said.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The cup had gone through first one pillar, then another, breaking them into tiny fragments of stone.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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The TV world may be more fragmented than ever, but it has consolidated around the shows it showers with awards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
UniCredit wants to create a European banking behemoth better able to take on bigger US rivals and argues that a merger would strengthen the region's fragmented banking sector.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
He has long argued that tennis’ fragmented governance holds the sport back and once envisioned himself leading a combined men’s and women’s tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"A core issue is fragmented governance, not a lack of technical capability."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
To see that I’ve connected the dots of her fragmented life, and here I am.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
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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
Prof Weissbourd points to a broader fragmenting of communities too.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 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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