How to Use fragmentation in a Sentence

fragmentation

noun
  • The fragmentation makes it so the DNA cannot create a whole protein that could be harmful.
    Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 3 July 2020
  • The biggest threat to the species is habitat loss and fragmentation, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
    Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Whewell remarked that the sciences’ increasing fragmentation was plain in the lack of any general name for those who studied the material world.
    Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 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
  • Land fragmentation caused by building highways can also hurt tigers in the wild, but Goodrich said Russia is doing a good job of keeping land protected.
    Lauren Kent, CNN, 8 June 2020
  • This was also the focus of Niti Aayog’s report on healthcare, which lays emphasis on the huge fragmentation of different schemes.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 8 June 2020
  • If Impressionism set out to reckon with the changes of the machine age, to get at the fragmentation, the heightened speed and the changing nature of sight, perhaps net art is not so different.
    Washington Post, 18 June 2020
  • Hayman and colleagues have found that land use changes in West Africa—resulting in fragmentation of the forests in which bats live—coincide with outbreaks of Ebola.
    Rachel Ehrenberg, Ars Technica, 3 July 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case comes at a time of increasing legal fragmentation regarding transgender healthcare, with different federal courts issuing conflicting rulings.
    Nik Popli, TIME, 25 Sep. 2024

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