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fragmentary

adjective as in broken, incomplete

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Debord’s genius was in seeing that world in its totality and not in the fragmentary form in which it wants to be seen.

From Salon

But Almodóvar found, on reading the pieces he has collected, that they amount to “a fragmentary autobiography, incomplete and a little cryptic.”

What is about to happen will very likely be even more damaging, as we move from fragmentary news reporting into the realm of speculation, name-calling, finger-pointing, conspiracy theory and half-baked political forecasting.

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Lyson said more than 100 individual T. rex fossils have been unearthed, but many are fragmentary.

North Korea is one of the world’s most secretive countries in the world, and foreign experts are keen on collecting any fragmentary information coming from the country.

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