fragmentates

present tense third-person singular of fragmentate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmentates
Verb
  • The current geopolitical map fragments the Inuit nation across artificial colonial borders.
    Barry Scott Zellen, Hartford Courant, 12 June 2026
  • When a super agent fails, responsibility fragments across retrieval, reasoning, tooling and policy.
    Praveen Satyanarayana, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
Verb
  • But when the central and eastern Pacific starts to warm, that balance breaks down.
    Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • Below, Akinnuoye-Agbaje breaks down the climactic episode, explaining why Alamo decides to let Rue kill herself and why Bishop betrays him.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 June 2026
Verb
  • But a wartime spike in energy prices has pushed rate cuts off the table for now.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 17 June 2026
  • Currently, Screen Time often acts up and just cuts off access to all apps, whether it’s supposed to or not.
    Tyler Hayes, PC Magazine, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • While designing the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, in the 1990s, the architect would sit by the river that bifurcates the city, looking at different metal treatments.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 6 Dec. 2025
  • For example, Highway 17 currently bifurcates a piece planners hope to lock in through Los Gatos.
    San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 July 2021
Verb
  • The three-part docuseries, directed by Nick Green and told by key players inside the courtroom, dissects the trial of Michael Jackson and his complex legacy.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 20 May 2026
  • Song Exploder is the default setting for the best music podcast, while One Song, which dissects one iconic song every episode, and provides a deep, humorous, and technical analysis of a single track’s production, history, and cultural impact goes largely unnoticed.
    Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Verb
  • The dog is ahead and has stopped by the tree that bisects the diagonal; the girl with the bright red coat who seems to be paused behind him.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • The supracoracoid fenestra is a large hole that nearly bisects the shoulder bone.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
Verb
  • Peppler tears big chunks of it off and passes it around for everyone to try, before illustrating the culinary importance of a good pissaladière.
    Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • When a battery dies, the industry routinely tears it apart to access the parts that matter.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026
Verb
  • Coming to the glum realization that love isn’t outlasting infatuation is trickier to write about than a more incendiary subject like unfaithfulness, but Rodrigo pulls it off.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • In the end, an inexperienced minor – who has no idea who hired them – pulls the trigger.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 June 2026
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“Fragmentates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentates. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.

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