splinter

President Bola Tinubu said the attackers were militants from Ansaru, a Boko Haram splinter group known to operate in central Nigeria, extending into the southwest.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

The fragile consensus on flattery was starting to splinter, a trend captured by Britain’s MI6.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

That threat could be a pathogen inside the body or something as simple as a splinter.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026

The 21st Century saw dance music splinter into even more sub-genres, providing something for everyone to move to.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

“Don’t act so superior. You yell your head off if you get an itty-bitty splinter in your finger,” Emilia said.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

I also wanted to understand if my treatment, which forced me to excavate painful childhood memories lodged beneath the surface, like splinters the skin had long healed over, could help others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Speak the speech, I pray you, but not in such a way that splinters the overall story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

I'm getting splinters from sitting on the fence here.”

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024

But she plays the more shadowed of the siblings without any of the flat spikes and splinters of pure evil that inform most of the hostile beings in this universe.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2024

The tree is burned, freshly burned and freshly knocked over, too, the unburned splinters clean and white like new wood.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

When he climbed the heap of slurry, he saw splintered furniture and ruined papers, but one thing remained intact.

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026

And like all of television, reality is facing splintered and waning audiences so the decibel level of that conversation-sparking is often dialed way up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

The anti-Assad forces were splintered, mutually mistrustful and prone to looting; the areas they controlled descended into anarchy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

Instead, after the region won independence from Spain in the early 19th century, it splintered into almost three dozen states of varying commitment to democracy and the rule of law.

From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026

The latter splintered into a whole slew of issues.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

Now this very coalition is splintering as his support spirals downward.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026

The estate of Wuthering Heights is foreboding and dark, with rocks splintering through the walls, while Linton’s Thrushcross Grange bears a Victorian aesthetic, containing the outside world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

Individual investors kicked off 2026 by taking a page from the playbook of global central banks and stockpiling gold as a hedge against a splintering world order.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026

“Or you get chaos and splintering and regionalization,” Ratney said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

Ambrose Spike had reported some minor splintering at the top inside edges of the door, but the shoring of earthworks was holding out.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques