fragmentary
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One such fragmentary fossil has proven particularly valuable.
From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026
Morrison seems to have taken particular inspiration from the omissions and evasions of Faulkner’s fragmentary storytelling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
Post-Holocaust memoirs are often quest stories, and Dunthorne juxtaposes his attempts to uncover the truth, or some approximation of it, with a fragmentary narrative of Siegfried Merzbacher’s life.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2025
Debord’s genius was in seeing that world in its totality and not in the fragmentary form in which it wants to be seen.
From Salon • Feb. 25, 2025
The kouros it most resembled, it turned out, was a smaller, fragmentary statue that was found by a British art historian in Switzerland in 1990.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing fragmentary
Novel Study: Fahrenheit 451, Part III
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Parts 1 & 2 Vocabulary (Unit 1)
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