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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

Each pair consisted of one healthy fragment and one bleached fragment originating from the same coral animal.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

These include a fragment from Byron—only a few scribbled pages, set in a Turkish cemetery, about the mysterious Augustus Darvell—and a long story called “The Vampyre” by John William Polidori, Byron’s former doctor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

If he could have had a fragment of mesarthium to experiment on in his laboratory, he would have been spared these late-night outings, this risk of discovery.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

By recognizing the surviving fragments of these ancient structures, scientists can better reconstruct how tectonic plates descended beneath one another, how volcanic arcs shifted, how continental crust grew, and how once-vast oceans eventually closed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Once released into the gums, the tiny titanium fragments attract a bacterial toxin known as lipopolysaccharide, which coats their surfaces.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 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

Even now the ink stood up on the fragments thick and black, the writing was not destroyed.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

The response also suffered because of the fragmented nature of the system, with thousands of different providers and services overseen by councils.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Current polling shows that the Israeli leader would likely fail to secure a ruling coalition, though it isn’t clear if Israel’s fragmented opposition will be able to do so either.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

However, today those languages are gone, and we already saw from Figure 19.1 that the Pygmies’ modern distribution is highly fragmented.

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

"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

But they haven’t fully priced in how the importance of domestic energy infrastructure will grow in a fragmenting world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 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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