fragmentary
adjective
frag·men·tary
ˈfrag-mən-ˌter-ē 
: consisting of fragments : incomplete
fragmentary evidence
a fragmentary account
Examples of fragmentary in a Sentence
discovering fragmentary remains of primitive animals
the historical record of this pharaoh's life and reign is fragmentary at best
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Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Mar. 2025
That muon then created its own fragmentary debris, sparking a ripple of telltale pale blue photons dubbed Cherenkov radiation that passed over ARCA’s instruments.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
The final chapters in the Amistad edition are fragmentary, and the book ends abruptly, ten years before Herod’s death.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Although the trappings and structures of information-sharing have existed for years, the actual sharing of information that would help secure the external border of Europe has been fragmentary.
—Martin A. Schain, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2016
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fragmentary
adjective
frag·men·tary
ˈfrag-mən-ˌter-ē
: made up of fragments : incomplete
a fragmentary report
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