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Recent Examples of fragmental The plume is made of three things: (1) steam - a lot of it; (2) ash - fine, fragmental pieces of silicate glass, not stuff from your backyard BBQ (which is burned carbon); (3) volcanic gases like CO2, SO2, H2S and others. Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2011 This would generate a cloud of hot gases and fragmental volcanic material, which could then move downslope gravitationally. Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2011 This would generate a cloud of hot gases and fragmental volcanic material, which could then move downslope gravitationally. Erik Klemetti, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmental
Adjective
  • This tally is an undercount, though, as the EPA data is incomplete.
    Austin Fast, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • Wildlife crossing projects for red wolves in North Carolina and Nevada tortoises are among $126 million in federal infrastructure grants to 17 states that U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy finalized from a backlog of 3,200 incomplete Biden-era grants.
    Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • Oddly, Long’s name was blacked out of that leaked partial copy of the complaint, but Pryor’s was not.
    Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 10 May 2025
  • Plus, a partial outage affecting some network repeaters is causing more problems: the card reader only works intermittently, and that leads to endless lines of frustrated customers.
    Katie Primm, NBC news, 9 May 2025

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“Fragmental.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmental. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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