fragmented

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Macron’s decision in 2024 to dissolve the National Assembly produced the most fragmented National Assembly in the history of France’s modern Fifth Republic.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

The overnight local election results have confirmed that, for the time being at least, electoral politics in Britain has become highly fragmented.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

It’s a large, highly fragmented industry with 20,000 distributors between here and Western Europe, which gives you room to consolidate and scale.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

It has spread to southeastern Blue Nile state, bordering Ethiopia and South Sudan, raising fears of a prolonged and fragmented conflict.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

Those and other draconian measures must have contributed to the spread of North China’s Sino-Tibetan languages over most of China, and to reducing the Miao-Yao and other language families to their present fragmented distributions.

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