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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But only Marxism, with its way of examining art for material determinations and historical shaping, can integrate these fragmentary images into revelations of the totality.
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Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
This frenetic form of diplomacy is notable not only for its lack of progress so far and for its piecemeal and fragmentary nature but also for its considerable scale and scope.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
Where the previous constellation of images had tended toward the fragmentary, these emphasized a serial, more comprehensive approach.
—Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Ethiopians have welcomed Abiy’s promises to end the Meles regime’s sometimes heavy-handed repression of political rights, but the country is now wrestling with the fragmentary pressures of ethnic politics that Meles managed to contain.
—Terrence Lyons, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
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Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
This frenetic form of diplomacy is notable not only for its lack of progress so far and for its piecemeal and fragmentary nature but also for its considerable scale and scope.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2024
Where the previous constellation of images had tended toward the fragmentary, these emphasized a serial, more comprehensive approach.
—Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Ethiopians have welcomed Abiy’s promises to end the Meles regime’s sometimes heavy-handed repression of political rights, but the country is now wrestling with the fragmentary pressures of ethnic politics that Meles managed to contain.
—Terrence Lyons, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
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“Fragmentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentary. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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