How to Use fragmentation in a Sentence

fragmentation

noun
  • Others think this may be the start of a new trend of fragmentation.
    Micah Singleton, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The truth is, fragmentation can go beyond what the eye can see.
    Nicole Heimann, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Can’t wait to see all the piracy and fragmentation backfire on them for this.
    Gene Park, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The idea is to reduce that fragmentation ... ensure the forests themselves have a chance to adapt, on their own with our help.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The biggest threat to the species is habitat loss and fragmentation, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
    Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The fragmentation makes it so the DNA cannot create a whole protein that could be harmful.
    Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 3 July 2020
  • But such shifts may not be as easy today due to loss and fragmentation of their habitats.
    Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • That has certainly led to some fragmentation in the space.
    Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • The world is entering a new, more intense era of fragmentation that is going to change the way the internet works.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 28 Oct. 2020
  • And the agents of fragmentation are as obvious as the efforts to conceal them are frantic.
    Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The biggest issue is the fragmentation of the region’s bus systems.
    Camille Squires, Quartz, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Right now the concern is that the fragmentation is more substantial on a smartphone.
    Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2020
  • And is social media doomed to more and more fragmentation?
    Leah Feiger, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The turtles are up against a lot, Ballard said, even beyond loss and fragmentation of habitat.
    Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2021
  • The second story is the bigger one — and that is the growing fragmentation of the German party system.
    Damon Linker, The Week, 27 Sep. 2021
  • This region faces threats from logging, mining, the fragmentation of forests by road projects, and climate change.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Former alt-righter Matt Forney said in a recent blog post that this fragmentation was part of a larger trend.
    Grayson Quay, The Week, 6 July 2022
  • Fuchsia might help Google fix the worst thing about Android — fragmentation.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Android has enough issues with fragmentation and updates, and the Pixel is supposed to be the example of how to do it right.
    Michael Simon, PCWorld, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The fragmentation has become more acute in recent decades.
    The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Using a process of micro fragmentation, scientists can spur corals to grow up to 50 times faster.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Through that fragmentation, the country has lost millions of acres of large forests and important wildlife habitat.
    Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Both the flow and the fragmentation of the Turkish is tremendously difficult to render in English.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The funding program is seen to have reduced the risk of fragmentation in the eurozone, analysts said.
    Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 15 June 2021
  • Except that instead of hanging in on a loop of the pack, it was supported by the pull-ring of a fragmentation grenade , poised like the sword of Damocles over his horrified tent-mates.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • With the surge of social media and streaming, there's more for audiences to watch than ever, and that leads to more media fragmentation.
    Frank Pallotta, CNN, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The fragmentation of the larger media into bubbles and niches, which enabled all of those things.
    Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Market fragmentation wasn’t as much of a concern when banks were full of stimulus checks and PPP money.
    James White, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Still, the fragmentation in the movement has persisted.
    New York Times, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Despite state-by-state fragmentation, Rice said there are people working to find a model approach.
    Rachel Curry, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024

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