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Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2024
Many of the life-forms that live in these depths are reliant on the polymetallic nodules, which form ever so gradually through chemical processes that cause metals to precipitate out of water around shell fragments and shark teeth, according to the Natural History Museum.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
Microplastics are fragments of plastic that are smaller than five millimeters long, the diameter of a standard pencil eraser.
—Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
The survey also highlighted items whose origins lay outside the context of colonialism and slavery, including ancient funerary urns that may contain ashes or bone fragments, early-20th-century dental samples and, at Houghton Library, the Houssaye book.
—Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Excavations uncovered the ancient stone pier and fragments of the bridge.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
One area appeared dedicated to storing metal tools and another to textile work, because the excavation revealed cloth fragments, bobbins, and loom weights.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2024
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak later said the fragment — believed to be part of a wing — was from the missing Boeing 777, but some officials from the United States and France questioned this.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that a series of blasts had occurred in the Ukrainian capital, with missile fragments falling in the Desnianskyi district.
—Heather Chen, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
Moreover, consolidation entails more than simply offering an interface where users can search various applications within a single interface while data is still fragmented.
—Amit Verma, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Maryland’s biotech landscape is fragmented with significant activities in Montgomery and Frederick counties and, of course, Baltimore.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
What’s the reasoning behind buying these entities at a time when so much media is fragmenting?
—Lachlan Cartwright, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
Formed by a lava flow that eventually cooled, hardened, and fragmented from waves repeatedly cascading over it, this black sand offers a striking color contrast from the lush green tropical forest that meets the shoreline.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2024
The streaming services have fragmented content ownership to a dizzying degree, so some degree of consolidation seems inevitable.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
The Warsaw Pact disbanded (its members largely joining NATO) and the USSR fragmented.
—John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
The result of these generations-old alliances is a U.S. system fragmented into about a dozen regions with limited connectivity between them.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Feb. 2024
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Word History
Noun
Middle English, borrowed from Latin fragmentum, from frag-, variant stem of frangere "to break, shatter" + -mentum -ment — more at break entry 1
Verb
derivative of fragment entry 1
Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined above
Verb
1818, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
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“Fragment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fragment. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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