fragmentary
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Yet the novel, while uniquely contemporary, joins a larger canon of fragmentary novels that resonate in our digital age of dwindling attention spans.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
By the century’s end it was fragmentary and partially overgrown, its once-pulsing culture withered to a memory that only the growth of the federal highway system in the 20th century would revive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The species had originally been named several years earlier based on fragmentary remains, but the new skeleton provided a far clearer view of the animal's unusual body structure.
From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 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
In many cases we have only fragmentary or secondhand accounts of what happened.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing fragmentary
Novel Study: Fahrenheit 451, Part III
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Parts 1 & 2 Vocabulary (Unit 1)
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