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Whether it burns—and how badly—depends mostly on people: how much fuel we let accumulate, how quickly we detect and douse flames, and how much land we farm, fragment and pave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The flood was strong enough to sweep a 10,000-ton fragment of the dam, called Block 29, a full quarter-mile and to destroy a steel bridge on the Santa Clara River nine miles away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

And 40 years ago, while studying one such bed for her PhD, Prof Christine Maggs found a fragment of pink-striped seaweed living on maerl she had never seen before.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Using Leah Mascia's reading of the text, Professor Adiego determined that the fragment comes from the "Catalogue of Ships" in Book II of Homer's Iliad.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

I think of the fragment of glass tattooed on her skin.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

But information arrives in fragments: a barcode result here, a recall notice there, a corrected FDA finding, a corporate statement, a congressional inquiry.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Broken engine fragments smashed a cabin window of a Ryanair plane last month causing a man's head and right shoulder to be sucked into the hole, US investigators have said.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The separated fan blade resulted in damage to portions of the engine’s cover and sent engine fragments flying, striking the airplane’s fuselage and its horizontal stabilizer, according to the report.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

And as Britain's political landscape fragments, Binface has become more than a comic sideshow.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Would there be many dried fragments, like squashing a harmattan-dried leaf?

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Hichilema is seeking a second term against a fragmented field of opposition candidates.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

“When we create a modern suburbia with fragmented parks and green space, we do a pretty good job at creating mosquito habitat,” Norris said.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

“We cannot scale frontier technology on top of fragmented processes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Sports remain a strong tool for attracting viewers—and, in turn, advertisers—in a fragmented media landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Instead, one might guess that they once had a more nearly continuous distribution, which became fragmented as speakers of other language families expanded or induced Miao-Yao speakers to abandon their tongues.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

But they haven’t fully priced in how the importance of domestic energy infrastructure will grow in a fragmenting world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

Prof Weissbourd points to a broader fragmenting of communities too.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

Planetesimals frequently crash into each other, sometimes merging into larger bodies and sometimes fragmenting into smaller ones.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2025

Prolonged uncertainty over trade policy is, in the Fund's view, likely to weigh on business investment decisions and cloud growth prospects, while fragmenting supply chains over the medium term.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025

When I open my eyes, the world looks slightly fractured, and it takes a minute to realize that the sun must be well up and the glasses fragmenting my vision.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins