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
Blue light from screens suppresses melatonin by up to 80%, delaying sleep onset when viewed within an hour of bedtime and fragmenting deep sleep.
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John La Puma, Oc Register, 26 Mar. 2026
Democratic Party leadership has expressed serious concern about the crowded eight-candidate Democratic field fragmenting voter support, with state party chair Rusty Hicks explicitly urging struggling candidates to withdraw to prevent two Republicans from advancing to the general election.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Media is always fragmenting, reconsolidating, and then fragmenting again, as yesterday’s disruption inevitably becomes today’s institution.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
What used to be a huge collective cultural consciousness has been fragmenting and separating out into mini-cultures that don’t communicate with each other.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026
Now, effects from the fresh conflict in the Middle East are rippling across the region, further fragmenting a once efficient and finely tuned global aviation network.
—Zach Levitt, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
The challenge lies in tailoring your tone without diluting the mission or fragmenting the brand.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026
Search is fragmenting across classic results, AI answers, and new discovery surfaces.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
The plans, released in November, showed roadways encroaching on landmarks and fragmenting neighborhoods in historically Black parts of the city.
—Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2026
John La Puma, Oc Register, 26 Mar. 2026
Democratic Party leadership has expressed serious concern about the crowded eight-candidate Democratic field fragmenting voter support, with state party chair Rusty Hicks explicitly urging struggling candidates to withdraw to prevent two Republicans from advancing to the general election.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Media is always fragmenting, reconsolidating, and then fragmenting again, as yesterday’s disruption inevitably becomes today’s institution.
—Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
What used to be a huge collective cultural consciousness has been fragmenting and separating out into mini-cultures that don’t communicate with each other.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026
Now, effects from the fresh conflict in the Middle East are rippling across the region, further fragmenting a once efficient and finely tuned global aviation network.
—Zach Levitt, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
The challenge lies in tailoring your tone without diluting the mission or fragmenting the brand.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026
Search is fragmenting across classic results, AI answers, and new discovery surfaces.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
The plans, released in November, showed roadways encroaching on landmarks and fragmenting neighborhoods in historically Black parts of the city.
—Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmenting
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The United States on June 25 launched a new satellite expected to significantly improve forecasts of solar flares and coronal mass ejections — huge plasma bubbles that can crash into Earth, disrupting power grids and communications.—
David Trainer,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2026
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Warming temperatures and shifts in sea ice in the Arctic are disrupting the food web gray whales rely on during summer feeding months, according to a 2023 study in Science, leaving many malnourished during migration.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 May 2026
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To pass, Spectra had to run highly complex nuclear stockpile and molecular physics simulations without crashing, dragging, or fracturing code.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
20 May 2026
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This town of around 200 native Náhuatl people is among many in the central state of Guerrero ravaged by decades of fracturing rival criminal groups warring for territorial control.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 May 2026
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Nvidia’s GPUs, first developed in 1999 for rendering graphics on computers and gaming consoles, function by breaking complex computing problems into smaller tasks and resolving them simultaneously.—
Matthew Chin,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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The two string-breaking simulations are among the first to model particle interactions in two spatial dimensions, González-Cuadra says.—
Zeeya Merali,
Scientific American,
19 May 2026
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The meteor was moving southwest at 30,000 miles per hour and traveled 117 miles through the upper atmosphere before disintegrating 27 miles above the town of Galloway north of Atlantic City, New Jersey, according to NASA.—
Kate Perez,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2026
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Last year, the Dominican Republic deported more than 100,000 Haitians back to their disintegrating country.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Fragmenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmenting. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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