as in disrupting
to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly
you can fragment that peanut brittle easily, but how it breaks is basically up to the brittle
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Recent Examples of fragmenting
Achieving multiplatinum certification in America after selling over 8 million copies and spending seventeen non-consecutive weeks at #1, Synchronicity left Sting with few creative or financial reasons to remain in the fragmenting band.
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Mike Alleyne, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land and altering ancient reindeer migration routes.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Agricultural activities in Africa are increasingly fragmenting wildland areas that are prone to burning.
—Seyd Teymoor Seydi, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2025
In response, God confounded their language and scattered them across the Earth, halting the construction and fragmenting their unity.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Most world powers say settlement expansion has eroded the viability of a two-state solution by fragmenting Palestinian territory.
—USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
However, were the Democratic field to remain large, fragmenting the Democratic vote, a Republican could finish second in the primary and win a spot on the general election ballot, essentially guaranteeing the Democratic nominee an easy win.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2025
Mike Alleyne, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land and altering ancient reindeer migration routes.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
Agricultural activities in Africa are increasingly fragmenting wildland areas that are prone to burning.
—Seyd Teymoor Seydi, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2025
In response, God confounded their language and scattered them across the Earth, halting the construction and fragmenting their unity.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
Most world powers say settlement expansion has eroded the viability of a two-state solution by fragmenting Palestinian territory.
—USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
However, were the Democratic field to remain large, fragmenting the Democratic vote, a Republican could finish second in the primary and win a spot on the general election ballot, essentially guaranteeing the Democratic nominee an easy win.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmenting
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However, the president’s criticism of mail-in ballots could risk disrupting the inroads Republicans made with voters last cycle, with the party spending millions promoting mail-in ballots ahead of the 2024 election.—
Hailey Bullis,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Sep. 2025
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The limitations placed on these researchers is disrupting NASA’s work and could stymie the careers of younger Chinese researchers who came to the US to advance their scientific work, as well as benefit the space agency through their findings, the sources said.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
11 Sep. 2025
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Laura is frantic about saving Daniel after learning Cherry pushed her father from a construction site, fracturing his spine in two places.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Whispers of a fundamental dispute have burst into public view, fracturing one of the Middle East and North Africa's most pivotal alliances.—
Khaled Hassan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Sep. 2025
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While Japan and China are already breaking speed records and bringing the technology to life, projects in the West are still struggling to deliver even conventional high-speed rail.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Sep. 2025
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But explaining Dyer’s motivations in the face of a disintegrating family portrayed in & Sons remains a bit of an uphill climb for Nighy.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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As the Snowball catastrophically collapsed once more, superhot oceans of meltwater, just offshore from rapidly disintegrating mile-thick ice sheets, drove some of the wildest weather in Earth history.—
Peter Brannen
August 28,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Fragmenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmenting. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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