as in incomplete
lacking some necessary part
the historical record of this pharaoh's life and reign is fragmentary at best
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Recent Examples of fragmentary
Her remaining works in fragmentary progress will provide enough material for at least two posthumous albums and possibly a hologram concert by spring.
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Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
With words infallibly falling short, Pritam mingled realism with a fragmentary style of narration that meshes together social encounters, violent episodes, vivid metaphors, disturbing dreams, memories, intimate self-reflections, and introspection on society.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Rather, they have been written to capture, somehow, a complicated, fragmentary and/or vanishing story of great importance to the author.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
White’s fragmentary response forms the core of the story that was used to convict him.
—Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
With words infallibly falling short, Pritam mingled realism with a fragmentary style of narration that meshes together social encounters, violent episodes, vivid metaphors, disturbing dreams, memories, intimate self-reflections, and introspection on society.
—JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Rather, they have been written to capture, somehow, a complicated, fragmentary and/or vanishing story of great importance to the author.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
White’s fragmentary response forms the core of the story that was used to convict him.
—Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmentary
incomplete
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Those narratives are emotionally satisfying — and incomplete.—
Mark Mitchell,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
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The problem is the AI models that help come up with drug candidates are still very inaccurate, largely because the data used to train these models is sparse and incomplete.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Fragmentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentary. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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