fragment
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An amateur fossil hunter who found a rare fragment from the world's oldest marine crocodile said she thought it was a piece of wood with nails driven through it.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
If Mr. Richards had “nothing more than a fragment of a riff,” Mr. Spitz writes, “he could sit and play it for hours, while the rest of the guys hung out, killing time.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
It’s a cracked mirror, with each fragment revealing a different, distorted image of the human psyche — and it’s really funny, too.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
Larger plastic debris can fragment over time due to sunlight.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
The theories of the time tried to save a fragment of Aristotle’s philosophy by declaring that nature’s horror of the vacuum was “limited”; it could only destroy a finite amount of vacuum.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing fragment
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Give Me a Break!: Fract and Frag
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Keystone Exams: English Composition Glossary
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