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Lior Soroka, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
Investigators had earlier found a fragment of one of her bones about 100 yards from a house that blew up.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
Thousands or tens of thousands of smaller fragments likely remain as well.
—Jaime Green, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
That's because the team found only fragments of skulls, arms, and hips at the Moroccan site rather than full bodies of bones.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
The boxes, filled with images torn from magazines, old postcards evocative of a cultured Europe, fragments from old manuscripts, dolls, taxidermy birds, and so on, had a galvanizing effect on Saar.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
But the Seychelles are fragments of an ancient continent dropped in the middle of the sea.
—Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
Tokens are fragments of words (and sometimes whole words) used to represent words in machine learning models such as GPT-4 and the prompt interpreter for DALL-E 3.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
Often people are shooting footage, and something else that happens to be there — like leftover fragments from a bomb — can be clues for another story entirely, Polglase said.
—David Bauder, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2023
Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
Deep divisions and distrust between officials in Mogadishu and regional leaders, as well as among clans and subclans, threaten to fragment the country.
—Sarah Harrison, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
The audience is also fragmented thanks to the boom in streaming.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
Many of the animal’s native wetlands were fragmented and shrinking, and conservationists feared that global warming would finish the tortoise off.
—Moises Velasquez-Manoff, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
Hamas, however, is also fragmented, politically and physically, Kurtzer noted.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
By contrast, middle-of-the-road and progressive sources were fragmented.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
Unfortunately, this information can still be fragmented, and patient records can be outdated or erroneous, or include irrelevant material.
—Karen Sepucha, STAT, 5 Sep. 2023
But despite the importance, the view of the predicament has often been fragmented.
—Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
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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 10 Dec. 2023.
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