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cantles

noun

plural of cantle
as in fragments

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  1. fragments
  2. fractions
  3. shreds
  4. pieces
  5. scraps
  6. sections
  7. segments
  8. leftovers
Noun
  • Researchers were able to date the fragment back to about 300 AD, the university said, and only about 30 such fragments exist worldwide.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Instead, its environmental proposition is that those fragments should persist for less time after entering the environment.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of fragments
Noun
  • The brightly colored insects, native to Australia, are small — just fractions of an inch long — with colors that pop under a microscope.
    — Brad Balukjian, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Specifically, is the set of all rational numbers, meaning those expressible as fractions, such as 1, or , or .
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of fractions
Noun
  • In contrast, when a previously obscure writer, Mia Ballard, was accused of using AI in her horror novel Shy Girl, her publisher launched an investigation, canceled the book, and left her reputation in shreds.
    — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The pork chop came with an unfamiliar vegetable, shreds of a green stalk.
    — Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of shreds
Noun
  • These new pieces strike other satellites and rockets, generating even more debris faster than atmospheric drag can remove it.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
  • As for finishing touches to her school drop-off style, Middleton added jewelry pieces and footwear that augmented the refined approach to Tuesday’s look.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of pieces
Noun
  • Perhaps that’s why the show at Scully’s feels so major; by incorporating scraps of New York into the work, Prieto is finally metabolizing a piece of the city.
    — Jill Singer, Curbed, 14 Sep. 2026
  • On that sixth consecutive practice, for example, a couple of scraps broke out.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of scraps
Noun
  • Instead, they were restricted to either the north or south sections, which are divided by the highway running over the track.
    — Luke Smith, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • This work later proved that prime numbers, while randomly scattered in small sections of the number line, appear to be regularly arranged over sufficiently large intervals.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of sections
Noun
  • Analyst Gavin Parsons said that Lockheed Martin is set to see growth across several business segments, setting the company up to potentially double-digit upside to earnings per share consensus estimates in 2028.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Helping understand mutations in DNA’s vast ‘non-coding’ segments DNA provides the recipe for the proteins a living cell can make.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of segments
Noun
  • The organization relied heavily on restaurant leftovers and corporate volunteers to make and deliver the meals.
    — Kelsy Mittauer, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • There’s enough sauce to happily drown each wonton, and bring home leftovers to use throughout the rest of the week.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of leftovers
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