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
Verb
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And that crackdown is disrupting the global remittance market.—
NPR,
NPR,
29 Oct. 2025
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This prevents stray heat from disrupting the atoms’ oscillations.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In early October, the former reality star shared with her fans that her dog ran into her, fracturing her leg.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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This discovery ultimately ends up completely fracturing the Dark Hearts.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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His most recent stop before Arkansas was in Baltimore, Maryland, as a night and breaking news editor.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2025
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The user shared another clip in the thread that followed, showing the G1 breaking into a room like a burglar, shattering a glass door.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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By the time it was all set up, the whole cold, disintegrating place was threaded with lights and lines, flickering everywhere, black and red, the sheer quantity somehow terrifying and embracing at once.—
Blair Braverman,
Outside,
28 Oct. 2025
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This difference sounds small, but preventing a few tenths of a degree of warming could keep polar ice caps from completely disintegrating, coral reefs from collapsing and other tipping points from triggering.—
Syris Valentine,
Scientific American,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Fragmenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmenting. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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