fragmentary
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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
"The future of dinosaur research will depend on paying attention to the humble, the fragmentary, the small."
From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 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
When they met in the church tower the gaps in their fragmentary conversation were filled up.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Vocabulary lists containing fragmentary
Novel Study: Fahrenheit 451, Part III
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The Fighting Ground
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Parts 1 & 2 Vocabulary (Unit 1)
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