fragmentating

verb

present participle of fragmentate
as in fragmenting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmentating
  1. fragmenting
  2. dissecting
  3. pulling
  4. cleaving
  5. bisecting
  6. bifurcating
  7. cutting off
  8. tearing
Verb
  • Marketing agents, sales agents, and service workflows may each optimize for local objectives while unintentionally fragmenting the broader customer narrative.
    — Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Many organizations still operate multiple ERPs, driving up costs, fragmenting data and slowing decisions.
    — David Zwick, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of fragmenting
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  • Content creators from across the political spectrum are making guides on the best tools to cut down Flock cameras, blasting them off poles with shotguns, and dissecting every misstep the company makes.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Amateur sleuths, armchair lawyers and influencers have turned the soon-to-conclude trial into snackable, whodunit content, dissecting every detail and advancing their own theories across TikTok and other social platforms.
    — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of dissecting
Verb
  • Havertz pulling to the right, combined with the snappier passing of Rice, is what brought their equaliser.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Even average Big Ten linemen are pulling $400,000 or more these days.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of pulling
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  • It can be made cleanly by cleaving the hydrogen out of water using clean electricity.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Imagine a termite carving a path like a jumbled ball of string through a tree trunk, instead of an axe cleaving a single vector.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of cleaving
Verb
  • For the quintessential Glacier National Park visit, take the Going-to-the-Sun Road for 50 miles of stunning vistas, bisecting the east and west sides of the park.
    — Giovanna Caravetta, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Valley Fair, located on Stevens Creek Boulevard, sits both in San Jose and Santa Clara, with the city border bisecting the property.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 1 Dec. 2025
Definition of bisecting
Verb
  • At the same time, the enterprise AI market is bifurcating.
    — Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Levanon’s reading of the labor data is that the economy is bifurcating in a specific and underreported way.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 16 May 2026
Definition of bifurcating
Verb
  • However, for many observers, including those in the UK, the moon will set shortly after maximum eclipse, cutting off the later stages of the partial phase.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Notable New polling for the IMEU Policy Project, conducted by YouGov, suggests that cutting off military aid to Israel is a popular position in the six states that will vote first in the 2028 Democratic presidential primary.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of cutting off
Verb
  • In a series of videos posted on social media and flagged by KOB4, Martinez filmed himself tearing the camera towers down in order to return them to their rightful owners.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Because the tool cuts through vibration rather than force, the edge is designed to stay closer to true, with reduced crushing or tearing on delicate parts and thin sheet stock.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of tearing
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“Fragmentating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentating. Accessed 7 Sep. 2026.

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