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“Without maritime trade, supply chains would fragment and the global economy as we know it would come to a sudden halt,” the group said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Lynch’s impulse to fragment takes a more playful, if morbid, turn in the “Kits.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

A newly single writer and her daughter arrive in Sicily, carrying a fragment of a Roman ruin that they hope to return to its original site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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

As long as some creature experienced joy, then the condition for all other creatures included a fragment of joy.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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

It was fragments from the pistol butt which enabled police to identify it as a Luger P06.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Across Nepal's flood disaster zone, survivors are returning to villages reduced to mud and debris, searching for belongings, documents and fragments of lives swept away in minutes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

It stung a little, and fragments of earth fell down his collar and under his clothes.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

Inditex, which operates in 215 markets worldwide, said its business model, "characterised by flexibility, responsiveness and within-season sourcing, permits us to react to fashion trends, reinforcing our unique market position" in a fragmented sector.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

“This is a devastating blowback to people who have been forced to navigate the fragmented and flawed federal emergency response.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Could it, for example, pursue more acquisitions in this notoriously fragmented industry?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Many diamond frogs live in forests that are becoming increasingly fragmented by deforestation.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

In fact, precisely because Europe was fragmented, Columbus succeeded on his fifth try in persuading one of Europe’s hundreds of princes to sponsor him.

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

"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

Prolonged uncertainty over trade policy is, in the Fund's view, likely to weigh on business investment decisions and cloud growth prospects, while fragmenting supply chains over the medium term.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025

Catherine says smartphones and gadgets have become a "constant distraction, fragmenting our focus" and undermining the time that families spend together.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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