fractured

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Each proposal and counterproposal takes days to negotiate, complicated by the time it takes to wind new text through Iran’s fractured leadership structure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

The money, in their view, not only has to make up for mounting legal fees, but lost income, tainted reputations, fractured families, and years spent behind bars.

From Slate • May 28, 2026

The fossil, housed at the Perot Museum, is missing the tip of its snout and shows a fractured lower jaw.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2026

She describes Poly as both ever-present and irretrievably gone — an absence that structured the family, then fractured it when he finally joins them thanks to the Mariel boatlift of 1980.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

By the time of Gilmore’s visit, Blackwater Draw was an arid, almost vegetation-free jumble of sandy drifts and faces of fractured caliche.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann