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He held up a fist-size chunk of sandy brown rock embedded with a dark, ridged oblong shape, unmistakably a plant or shell fragment.
11 GREAT MICROADVENTURES YOU CAN DO NOWTHE EDITORSOCTOBER 1, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEWe humans all have an inborn tendency to create a plausible story out of memory fragments.
YOU CAN’T COMPLETELY TRUST YOUR MEMORIESDAVID LINDENSEPTEMBER 30, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEI still get bloody noses at random times, and will for the rest of my life — a bone fragment that didn’t heal properly is just kind of floating in there.
THE ACCIDENTAL ATTEMPTED MURDEREUGENE ROBINSONSEPTEMBER 2, 2020OZYEven the medium of streaming is being shattered into ever tinier fragments by the likes of Instagram, Quibi and TikTok.
‘SUNSET BOULEVARD’ OF BROKEN DREAMSDAVID EHRENSTEINAUGUST 20, 2020WASHINGTON BLADESometimes these rock fragments, floating in outer space, enter Earth’s atmosphere, where gravity pulls them in.
METEORITES FROM MARS CONTAIN CLUES ABOUT THE RED PLANET’S GEOLOGYARYA UDRYJUNE 17, 2020SINGULARITY HUB Genes are fragments of DNA that determine how an organism looks and acts.
DECADES-LONG PROJECT IS LINKING OUR HEALTH TO THE ENVIRONMENTLINDSEY KONKELMARCH 12, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSIt is undoubtedly true if we look at any little portion of business activity taken as a fragment by itself.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKIt is somewhat curious that, previous to the publication of Christabel, there appeared a conclusion to that splendid fragment.
NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 177, MARCH 19, 1853VARIOUSFragment, apparently from a columnar mass, of a stone intermediate between clink-stone and compact felspar.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGThe author of this fragment writes in the style which seems to belong to the primitive ages.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)WORDS RELATED TO FRAGMENT
- allowance
- apportionment
- bite
- chunk
- claim
- commission
- contribution
- cut
- cut in
- cut up
- divide
- dividend
- division
- divvy
- dose
- drag
- due
- end
- fifty-fifty
- fraction
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- halver
- helping
- heritage
- interest
- lagniappe
- lot
- measure
- meed
- parcel
- part
- partage
- percentage
- piece
- pittance
- plum
- points
- proportion
- quantum
- quota
- quotient
- quotum
- rake-off
- ration
- segment
- serving
- slice
- split
- stake
- taste
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- blasted
- blighted
- burst
- cracked
- crashed
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- demolished
- destroyed
- disabled
- exhausted
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- fractured
- fragmentalized
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- impaired
- imploded
- overturned
- pulverized
- rent
- rived
- ruined
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- shivered
- smash to smithereens
- smashed
- smattered
- snapped
- splintered
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- torpedoed
- totaled
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- wrecked
- blasting
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- splintering
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- torpedoing
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