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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
Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
And with the Brotherhood of Sorcerers now splintered after the Thanedd coup, the disparate mages are looking for leadership.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
The way the bone splintered is known as a distal humerus fracture.
—Katheryn Houghton, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
The country is splintered, and language gets used as ammunition.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
But as the supercontinent finally splintered apart around 200 million years ago and the near-endless age of dinosaurs found its groove, the planet recovered to conditions more hospitable to animal life.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Individual cities or communities’ risk being splintered across multiple legislative districts.
—Matt Klink, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
The end of her stick splintered on the ground like tree trunks snapping in the bush.
—Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
With that, the trio of Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas come swaggering and smiling from the wings, strolling to the tip of a catwalk together, the professional differences that splintered their brotherly union for a spell neatly compartmentalized for 2 ½-hours of polished pop digested by adoring fans.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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
Adjective
The truth is, genres themselves have already splintered beyond recognition.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
And with the Brotherhood of Sorcerers now splintered after the Thanedd coup, the disparate mages are looking for leadership.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
The way the bone splintered is known as a distal humerus fracture.
—Katheryn Houghton, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
The country is splintered, and language gets used as ammunition.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
But as the supercontinent finally splintered apart around 200 million years ago and the near-endless age of dinosaurs found its groove, the planet recovered to conditions more hospitable to animal life.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Individual cities or communities’ risk being splintered across multiple legislative districts.
—Matt Klink, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
The end of her stick splintered on the ground like tree trunks snapping in the bush.
—Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
With that, the trio of Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas come swaggering and smiling from the wings, strolling to the tip of a catwalk together, the professional differences that splintered their brotherly union for a spell neatly compartmentalized for 2 ½-hours of polished pop digested by adoring fans.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for splintered
Verb
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Rather than simply folding them in whole or sliced in half, Kardea recommends roasting red grapes.—
Karla Walsh,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
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Sogard sliced a base hit to center and took advantage of Judge’s arm, speeding to second on what should have been a single.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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And with no concrete connection between the two stories, why bother having a split season at all?—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
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Nearly two years ago, Democrats were evenly split, with 34 percent sympathizing with Israel and 31 percent with Palestinians.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The long hair of their youth is now gone, chopped away.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Daka said the chicken is cooked and, as it is cooked, it's chopped — almost shredded — and seasoned.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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There are black-and-white scenes from what appears to be a cracked Biblical drama featuring a levitating monk and, to the particular bafflement of the producer, a dancing Pulcinella.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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And everything’s not exactly rosy in the core business, which still is dealing with a cracked, state-by-state regulatory environment.—
Brett Owens,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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While the new image reveals new clues about the exploded star and its environment, further research is needed to better understand how pulsars and supernova debris interact to sculpt such stunning cosmic structures.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Patrick Helton, who lives in a home on the lot just behind the exploded house, said an adjuster was supposed to show up soon.—
Ella McCarthy,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
Adjective
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The Social Network charted Facebook's origins at Harvard, highlighting the fractured friendship between co-founders Zuckerberg (Eisenberg) and Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield).—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Sep. 2025
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Family Tree centers on three estranged siblings who reunite at Christmas to sell their crumbling childhood home only to discover that fixing the house might be the key to repairing their fractured family.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Found in small quantities in the solar wind, He-3 is implanted in the lunar regolith, the layer of loose, fragmented material that carpets the terrain of the moon.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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How the system works The research team, led by Li Xudong at the Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, explained that the prototype solves long-standing challenges of combining data from fragmented sources.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Sep. 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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“Splintered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splintered. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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