as in to fragment
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Drained for agriculture, fragmented by urban expansion and cut off from their natural water cycles, the U.K. lost nearly 90% of its historic wetlands—taking entire ecosystems down with them.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025 -
The fact that users are fragmented across many distros, many of which are open-source (and thus open to audits from their respective communities), is also an advantage.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
14 Feb. 2025
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Employers can also segment their internal communications' strategies by department or geography and think about unique ways to engage those specific groups.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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The brain was not just segmenting at the boundaries people recognized as meaningful scene changes.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
21 Feb. 2025
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Before luxury quartered off the community and gentrified the kinship.—
Marcus Thompson II,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
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The buck stopped at 15 yards, slightly quartering to him.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
29 Jan. 2025
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Dellinger's decision to walk away from the case cuts off its path to the Supreme Court, which has in a pair of recent decisions reasserted the president's power to remove executive branch officers at will.—
Jacob Rosen,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2025
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Trump is cutting off the Ukrainians, and taking some pressure off the Russians, just as the Ukrainians—with their increasingly deadly drones and artillery—may be on the cusp of turning the tide of the wider war.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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After World War I, the British and French partitioned the Middle East through the Sykes-Picot Agreement.—
Sefa Secen & Serhun Al / Made by History,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
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That factoid is soon made very, very clear; the slide and the ball pit are also red, as is the huge sectional at the center of the family room, the chandelier above, the velvet ropes that partition the area, the dramatically swooping drapes, and the nearby pair of ginormous bean bags.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
7 Jan. 2025
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Klay Thompson may find life more difficult because Dallas no longer has someone to individually break down a defense or force a double team.—
Stan Son,
The Athletic,
5 Mar. 2025
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Di Placido covers TikTok and Twitter trends, breaking down interesting conversations and controversies surrounding celebrities and the entertainment industry, focusing on fantasy and sci-fi stories such as Star Wars and House of the Dragon.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Brands began to pull together resources to support refugees.—
Stephan Rabimov,
Forbes,
13 Feb. 2023
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The 13-minute performance will likely call for a healthy dose of vibrant, colored lighting to pull it all together.—
Kelly Allen,
House Beautiful,
10 Feb. 2023
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Characters dissect its backstory and hypothesize about its potential to inflict traumatic brain injuries from afar.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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Stefanik, Senator John Fetterman, and others excoriated Masoud from Washington, and the event was dissected in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Daily Mail.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Fragmentate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentate. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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