fracturing

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Asian countries are rationing fuel, governments are emptying their crude-oil stockpiles, airlines are canceling thousands of flights, and Middle East alliances are fracturing.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Reagan amid the tumult and tectonic fracturing of the 1960s Civil Rights and Free Speech movements.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026

This fracturing was clear at the last general election two years ago, even if the make-up of the House of Commons afterwards didn't really reflect it.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

This particular form of instability—in which electoral outcomes haven’t caught up with voters’ frustrations—has long plagued polities on the Continent, where proportional voting systems accelerate the fracturing of authority in parliaments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Escaping to that other place, wherever it was, and leaving everyone else behind in a fracturing world.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder