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Too many tile styles in one space looks fragmented; stick to one main tile instead.—
Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
13 Jan. 2026 -
Wahnee said his role is often to help survivors navigate overlapping jurisdictions and locate services when records, funding, or authority are fragmented across tribal, state, and federal lines.—
Stephen Martin,
Oklahoma Watch,
13 Jan. 2026
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After it was collected, it was then segmented by state and city, and an index was created to rank the most and least Christmassy states and cities in America.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
20 Dec. 2025
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The work is segmented, each employee tasked with one of 180 watchmaking crafts.—
Jon Wertheim,
CBS News,
8 Dec. 2025
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Use baby Yukon gold potatoes and quarter them.—
Erin Merhar,
Southern Living,
6 Jan. 2026
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The plant’s parentage is ‘Fourth of July’ x ‘Angel Face.’ ‘Fashion Forward,’ hybridized by Christian Bédard and introduced by Weeks Roses, has cuppy, quartered, old-fashioned and very double medium pink and white bicolor blooms.—
Rita Perwich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Dec. 2025
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Cumming said the city's information technology department also abruptly cut off part of her office administrator's access, including the ability to see who else in city government may be looking at whistleblower complaints and documents related to ethics investigations.—
Mike Hellgren,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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The drug cuts off access to vitamin A in the testes by blocking a receptor known as RAR alpha.—
Ana Castelain,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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No longer are films in languages other than English partitioned from consideration in other categories, save for a few outliers.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
11 Dec. 2025
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In 1947: The United Nations adopted a plan to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
29 Nov. 2025
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Their motions are often planned offline and break down when real-world conditions change.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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Below, the beauty experts break down essential steps to keeping your skin barrier smooth and supple—single digit degrees be damned!—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
28 Jan. 2026
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The Bulldogs pulled within 69-66 with just over nine minutes remaining, but the Aggies answered with back-to-back three-pointers from Ali Dibba and Jacari Lane to regain control.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 Feb. 2026
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Video shows the girl carefully pulling a coaster from the tower before the entire structure cascades downward in seconds, prompting audible reactions from spectators.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Support and apprehension from lobbyists, lawmakers Almost every lawmaker and lobbyist who testified for or against the bill as it was dissected for hours across three committee hearings supported the bill's intention.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
29 Jan. 2026
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And no matter where anyone turned, everyone poked, prodded and dissected the sounds, lyrics and yes, muses – a prospect faced by no other artist in 2025.—
Denise Warner,
Billboard,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Fragmentate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentate. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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