fragmentated

past tense of fragmentate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmentated
Verb
  • That's really the one of the criticisms about the opposition is that it's fragmented and therefore not effective.
    Leila Fadel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Kafka’s life and work are fragmented, so the film had to be fragmented too—piecing together shards of his fiction, his letters, and his lived experience.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The films are succinctly dissected, too.
    Michael Taube, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That’s partly why next week’s Fed policy meeting will be even more closely dissected than usual.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Start by cutting off the sleeves of thrifted or no longer worn sweaters.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Jere is forced to get a job at a restaurant now that he's cut off financially.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These goals may appear bifurcated, but they will become increasingly intertwined in the years ahead.
    GARY ROUGHEAD, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025
  • It’s also oddly bifurcated into two noticeably chunks, with the first half focusing on Hank and Yvonne’s tender but touchy, highly tectchy relationship and the second half leaning into the gonzo forward momentum of a get-the-dough crime flick.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • They were pulled from the Red Barn, a local landmark dating to the early 1900s in this small community southwest of the Keweenaw Peninsula.
    Eric D. Lawrence, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement Advertisement Season 3 was the series’ most volatile yet, with every storyline pulled taut to the breaking point.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The first thing visitors approaching Quincy, Washington see is dry rolling hills, cleaved by the Columbia River.
    Monica Nickelsburg, NPR, 17 Aug. 2025
  • The mudslide cleaved through Dharali village, burying some houses.
    Reuters, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Galicia Lopez broke down the front door of the residence while the other two men remained outside, prosecutors said.
    Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Brent Lang, Variety‘s executive editor, also broke down the 2025 summer box office haul, reflecting on the underwhelming overall tally for the crucial frame.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As a continent that’s bisected by the Equator, Africa is actually the least distorted of all in the Mercator projection.
    Big Think, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Fragmentated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentated. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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