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Recent Examples of fragmentary Though fugitive and fragmentary, the events in the Gospels take place on a fixed historical time line. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025 Whereas Liliana’s Invincible Summer is emotional, sincere, and relatively easy to follow, Death Takes Me is cerebral, fragmentary, and disorienting. Nicolás Medina Mora, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2025 Though fragmentary, the Romanesque masterpiece is a unique example of Anglo-Norman art at roughly 230 feet long and one-and-a-half feet wide. Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Mar. 2025 While her book is at times fragmentary and episodic, marked by abrupt discontinuities, the cumulative effect is powerful, eloquently testifying to the horrific consequences of this conflict. Rebecca Donner, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fragmentary
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incomplete
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

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“Fragmentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentary. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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