as in incomplete
lacking some necessary part
the historical record of this pharaoh's life and reign is fragmentary at best
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The second type includes four stone anchors, likely prehistoric, one fragmentary but resembling the three-hole typology with wooden flukes.
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Gairika Mitra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Dec. 2024
Most of these fossils are fragmentary, consisting of only a few bones or parts of bones.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2024
Though fragmentary, the Romanesque masterpiece is a unique example of Anglo-Norman art at roughly 230 feet long and one-and-a-half feet wide.
—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
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Gairika Mitra, Interesting Engineering, 15 Dec. 2024
Most of these fossils are fragmentary, consisting of only a few bones or parts of bones.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2024
Though fragmentary, the Romanesque masterpiece is a unique example of Anglo-Norman art at roughly 230 feet long and one-and-a-half feet wide.
—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
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“Fragmentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentary. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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