fragmentating

present participle of fragmentate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmentating
Verb
  • In it, DeLillo uses the Kennedy assassination to examine how conspiracy theories give shape and sense to an increasingly fragmenting culture.
    Reed Jackson, SPIN, 26 June 2026
  • When that foundation is in place, brands can respond market by market without fragmenting the organization or diluting the brand experience.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • Join forces and sign up for our subscriber-exclusive newsletter dissecting House of the Dragon season three.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 29 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, the 11 members of FIFA’s Technical Study Group were busy dissecting every play of every game, taking notes, poring over statistics, watching and rewatching plays and analyzing team performances and emerging trends.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • Workers were dispatched throughout La Guaira and parts of Caracas, where families and volunteers have spent the last few days pulling survivors and bodies from the wreckage despite a lack of heavy equipment and limited guidance from authorities.
    Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • Rescuers have fanned out across La Guaira, where the worst destruction occurred, and parts of Caracas, where families and volunteers have spent days pulling survivors and victims from the rubble.
    Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2026
Verb
  • Something like cleaving a payroll system in three has to be done flawlessly, for example, so staff still get paid on time.
    Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 12 June 2026
  • Inequality is cleaving the haves and the have-nots.
    Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
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
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
Verb
  • On his best nights, when the velocity and command combine, Sasaki blows past batters with a triple-digit fastball and cutting off-speed pitches.
    Liana Handler Follow, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
  • Instead, candidates’ positions on Israel and Gaza, like pledging to cosponsor legislation cutting off some weapons to Israel, are emerging as more of a credibility test, progressives said.
    Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • Rats, cockroaches and weasels run amok, tearing through limp tent sheets and biting children and newborn babies in their sleep.
    Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • That conversation completely shifted Taylor’s perspective, inspiring her to see the home's original features as something worth building around, instead of tearing out.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
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“Fragmentating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentating. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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