fragmentizing

Definition of fragmentizingnext
present participle of fragmentize

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Called the Crack Indication Tool, or CIT, it was meant to model how and when the Avcoat material might begin fragmenting in various conditions.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
  • States that are already watering down or even eliminating vaccine requirements may align with the administration’s decision to neglect and hide the data, contributing to a growing gap between states on vaccine policy, further fragmenting and politicizing decisions that should be based on science.
    Jill Rosenthal, STAT, 14 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • The waterway bisecting the city was converted to a giant storm drain nearly a century ago to contain flood waters.
    Emma Bowman, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • This also happens at a moment where the venture capital goalposts are moving—the industry is bifurcating into asset managers and smaller shops, while politics is becoming an increasingly complicated flashpoint.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The lens surface gradually transitions in prescription strength, with no lines bifurcating your vision.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Texas guard Jordan Pope has found his outside touch with a pair of 3-pointers in the second half, but the Aggies are dissecting the Texas defense.
    Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 17 Jan. 2026
  • While some installments tackled the basics like cooking supplies, automobiles, and food, others threw curveballs such as dissecting the inner workings of 3-D commercial signs, false teeth, cuckoo clocks, and more.
    Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • As his career skyrocketed, Chalamet spent years quietly training — aided by an expert on the sport, Diego Schaaf — by pulling a table-tennis setup along to productions ranging from Dune to Wonka.
    David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Notre Dame didn’t mess around in pulling all that material together, looking like a program with a plan before the portal opened.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • And of course, from a more skeptical perspective, the whole project could be described as cleaving close to the wisdom of the strippers in Gypsy.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The 35-year-old Altuve sat out the first two months of the 2023 season after fracturing his right thumb in the last World Baseball Classic.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The 49ers will be without Fred Warner despite optimism surrounding his return to practice earlier this week after fracturing his ankle in October.
    Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Instead, prune these shrubs after the flowers have begun to fall off in late spring to avoid cutting off the buds that will be next year’s blooms.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The Iranian government has increasingly cracked down on demonstrators in recent days, cutting off internet access and phone lines in Tehran in the middle of last week.
    Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2026
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“Fragmentizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentizing. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.

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