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The bloc of governors would have to splinter before a majority of Fed voters in favor of a hike could carry the day.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026

President Bola Tinubu said the attackers were militants from Ansaru, a Boko Haram splinter group known to operate in central Nigeria, extending into the southwest.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

The Wall Street Journal spoke to heads of government, their ministers and top aides to reconstruct the closed-door meetings where the alliance began to splinter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

That threat could be a pathogen inside the body or something as simple as a splinter.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026

They flashed until I thought they would splinter and crack when she told Dad she wasn’t going back to the city.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

It might be best not to think about splinters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

I also wanted to understand if my treatment, which forced me to excavate painful childhood memories lodged beneath the surface, like splinters the skin had long healed over, could help others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Speak the speech, I pray you, but not in such a way that splinters the overall story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

Most top directors can’t act to save their lives, which is why they tend to appear as themselves and stick out like splinters.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

Things I believed merely a week earlier, ideas I had taken from one book, could be smashed to splinters by another.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A splintered vote could open the door for Pelphrey, extraordinary as the deeply flawed single dad on “Task.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

“Immediately noticeable were the sagging eaves, the multitude of leaks from the roof, the dried out, splintered mahogany and the battered exterior woodwork, which had suffered seven decades of winds from the Sound.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Its army eventually withdrew and the Islamist militants left behind splintered and turned against each other.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

After a brief period of postrevolutionary hope, Libya splintered a few years later into two rival governments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

I’m still figuring what happened when another rock farther away shatters in a shower of dust and splintered stone.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

Maksić said putting students on the ballot risked pitting them against one another and splintering a movement built without leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Here’s what’s grabbed my attention: Thursday’s tech takedown, and a market that’s increasingly splintering.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

These surge for tens of kilometers, splintering trees, igniting forests and burying the remnants beneath hot ash and pumice.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

The estate of Wuthering Heights is foreboding and dark, with rocks splintering through the walls, while Linton’s Thrushcross Grange bears a Victorian aesthetic, containing the outside world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

“Look,” Hagrid twisted his crossbow uncomfortably in his hands; there was a loud splintering sound and it snapped in two.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling