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Recent Examples of splintered
Time, 24 Sep. 2025
Piqued by the remarkable results of the far-right National Rally in the European Parliament elections of May 2024, the French president forced a vote in which his party lost seats to the far right and far left, leaving France with a splintered parliament.
—Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Adam L. Rovner, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
Its recovery has been splintered, given the varying subsectors of retail, from large indoor malls to big-box centers to grocery-anchored, open-air strip centers.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
In subsequent decades, those group rituals became rarer as genres splintered and people’s tastes diversified.
—Jonathan Garrett, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
Churches, libraries, and houses stand splintered and rotting next to posh tourist resorts, the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Maria.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
Pooling surface meltwater had forced open cracks — a process called hydrofracturing — which splintered the shelf, the only barrier for the glaciers behind it.
—Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
Eventually, the Zizians splintered from the San Francisco rationalist community, accusing them of anti-transgender discrimination.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025
In fact, what had been late night is being splintered into pieces, where consumers can create their own show, complete with comedy sketches, political monologues and jokes, musical performances and interview segments all pulled from different channels.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
As goth became more commercialized in the 1990s (hello, Hot Topic), the subculture splintered into sub-subcultures (cyber goth, chola goth, pastel goth, to name a few) and expanded beyond the music scene into a safe space for young people who felt different.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
In the late 1830s, as a devastating financial crisis bankrupted antislavery societies across the North, the movement seemed splintered and powerless to keep up its petition pressure campaign.
—Time, 24 Sep. 2025
Piqued by the remarkable results of the far-right National Rally in the European Parliament elections of May 2024, the French president forced a vote in which his party lost seats to the far right and far left, leaving France with a splintered parliament.
—Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
The Mary’s rudder soon splintered against a rocky bar at the entrance to Natal Bay – what is now Durban, South Africa.
—Adam L. Rovner, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
Its recovery has been splintered, given the varying subsectors of retail, from large indoor malls to big-box centers to grocery-anchored, open-air strip centers.
—Diana Olick, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
In subsequent decades, those group rituals became rarer as genres splintered and people’s tastes diversified.
—Jonathan Garrett, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
Churches, libraries, and houses stand splintered and rotting next to posh tourist resorts, the aftermath of 2017’s Hurricane Maria.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2025
Pooling surface meltwater had forced open cracks — a process called hydrofracturing — which splintered the shelf, the only barrier for the glaciers behind it.
—Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
Eventually, the Zizians splintered from the San Francisco rationalist community, accusing them of anti-transgender discrimination.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025
In fact, what had been late night is being splintered into pieces, where consumers can create their own show, complete with comedy sketches, political monologues and jokes, musical performances and interview segments all pulled from different channels.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
As goth became more commercialized in the 1990s (hello, Hot Topic), the subculture splintered into sub-subcultures (cyber goth, chola goth, pastel goth, to name a few) and expanded beyond the music scene into a safe space for young people who felt different.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for splintered
Adjective
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The Walkabout accommodates the owners in a luxe front master's suite accessed via split sliding doors that Keystone calls the first of their kind.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Nov. 2025
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The Used is recording again next year Next up for The Used is a partnership with My Chemical Romance in 2026 to create a split EP, McCracken told Rolling Stone in September.—
Angelika Ytuarte,
jsonline.com,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The pizza features new deli-style pepperoni, a three-cheese blend, and signature Italian seasoning, sliced into eight extra-extra-large pieces and delivered in the restaurant's largest box yet.—
Daniel Orton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Hase stumbled forward, sliced the ball with her left foot and closed her eyes.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Besides being dangerous, downloading cracked software also poses legal risks.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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The leather on the shoes appears to be slightly decayed, worn, cracked and brittle, while the laces and midsole are stained, giving a distressed, lived-in effect.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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To honor the occasion, Reese bleached her hair and chopped it to her collarbone.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
4 Nov. 2025
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Noise of trees crackling and sap hissing, branches thumping down, timber being dragged and chopped.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Some astronomers believe the source of the glow to be pulsars — the spinning leftovers of exploded stars — while others point to colliding particles of dark matter, an elusive and invisible form of matter that is believed to be five times more abundant than regular matter.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
20 Oct. 2025
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Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis says reaching the center of the wreckage at the exploded ammunition plant will be slow and complex.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In Tracker, Justin Hartley stars as Colter Shaw, a professional bounty hunter with a fractured family and a complicated love life, but in real life, the actor is a husband and father.—
Katie Mannion,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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Dos Santos’ latest injury, a fractured cheekbone suffered early in last week’s loss to the Timbers, could be a season-ender.—
Ryan Finley,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Too often, fragmented funding streams and overlapping mandates lead to duplications of assistance in some areas and critical gaps in others.—
ARIF HUSAIN,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Nov. 2025
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Small and fragmented burns, what Roos calls a mosaic of fire, could be more effective at diminishing risk and buffering the effects of climate than bigger, cohesive prescribed burns.—
Sarah Henry,
AZCentral.com,
9 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Ripley spent four movies trying to keep the blasted things off our home world, but those pesky Xenomorphs are coming planetside anyway in Alien: Earth, the new Alien TV series.—
Ian Stokes,
Space.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Her ballerina background, however, is fairly extraneous, even with De Armas made to stare solemnly at that blasted music box during her rare moments of rest.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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