FRAGMENTATES Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

fragmentates

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present tense third-person singular of fragmentate

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When measurement is isolated, truth fragments across the organization.

— Guy Yehiav, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026
Technology fragments children’s attention spans.

— Kira Willey, CNBC, 17 June 2026

Definition of fragments

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This barrier smothers dormant weed seeds and breaks down into rich soil by spring.

— Manjot Kaur Sidhu, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
Both successful and unsuccessful attempts are included, allowing researchers to examine not only what a robot can accomplish but also where and why its performance breaks down.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of breaks down

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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

Definition of bifurcates

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Ward dissects the Black experience in America, reflects on her own experience as a young Black girl growing up in poverty in southern Mississippi, lauds the writers who influenced her, and examines her own motivations as a writer.

— The Know, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2026
Filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain crafts a taut supernatural drama that dissects the patriarchy hiding beneath the veneer of a fairytale wedding.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of dissects

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The glow of her computer occasionally caught her sharp cheekbones and bounced off her chin, highlighting the thin tattooed line that bisects it.

— Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Emergency services were sifting through the rubble of what used to be a nine-story building on the left bank of the Dnipro River that bisects the city as the sun rose and fires flared up around it.

— Gleb Garanich, USA Today, 2 July 2026

Definition of bisects

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Following her father’s unexpected death, Carrie enters the public high school ecosystem and is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community.

— Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
In a sense, the proof shows that a world in which love never returns is a world whose geometry tears itself apart—assuming, of course, the proof holds up.

— Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of tears

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As family members mill about, Carter pulls them into the eye of his orbit.

— Jason Parham, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Samsung Curved Gaming Monitor Deal The Samsung Odyssey G55C pulls you right into the center of the action with its immersive 1000R curved VA panel.

— Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026

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