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fragmentation

[frag-muhn-tey-shuhn] / ˌfræg mənˈteɪ ʃən /
NOUN
disintegration
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Morgan Private Bank published its Mid-Year Outlook on May 11, focusing on the investment implications of global fragmentation, sticky inflation, and the AI supercycle.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

A story of fragmentation, volatility, multi-party politics and records tumbling.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

In another, known as fragmentation, the explosion creates a disk of material around the collapsing core, and clumps in that disk eventually form a small neutron star, similar to how planets form.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

“The prospect of regime collapse or fragmentation or degradation even in Tehran, especially for these resistance groups, is existential, because this is their main source of power,” Mansour said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Contributing to these differences among Polynesian societies were at least six sets of environmental variables among Polynesian islands: island climate, geological type, marine resources, area, terrain fragmentation, and isolation.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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