fragmentize

verb

Definition of fragmentizenext
as in to fragment

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmentize
  1. fragment
  2. partition
  3. segment
  4. quarter
  5. cut off
  6. bifurcate
  7. subdivide
  8. bisect
Verb
  • The media decayed and fragmented, along with the nation.
    Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The coming launch of Venu and ESPN’s stand-alone service will fragment the business further.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of fragment
Verb
  • The county will also partition a portion of the network to serve its administrative functions, eliminating its need for an external internet provider at its buildings.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Nearly a century ago, the British partitioned the island as part of a deal granting independence to a new Irish state.
    Daniel Finn, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2019
Definition of partition
Verb
  • Or, like Swarovski is doing by segmenting its collection into identifiable tiers, which the brand calls its ‘complications,’ targeting different product-price profiles.
    Stéphane JG Girod, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The suit claims that the water main project was improperly segmented from the promenade.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of segment
Verb
  • Her husband walked toward her along the village street, where military vehicles are visible outside houses where soldiers are quartered.
    Oksana Parafeniuk, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Podcast: The Case for Ditching Your Treestand and Hunting from the Ground The buck was quartering away, and Pfeiffer had to turn slightly to get a shot angle.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of quarter
Verb
  • TikTok and content creators on the app argued the ban violates their First Amendment rights by cutting off all speech on the platform, while the federal government argued the ban is necessary for national security, given ByteDance’s Chinese ownership.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Kira Weibel was in eighth grade when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the student’s Altadena charter school, cutting off critical community connections.
    Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of cut off
Verb
  • But Stiller and producer and star Adam Scott recognized the potential in newcomer Dan Erickson’s surreal script: Employees volunteer to undergo an operation, called severance, that bifurcates the consciousness into work life and personal life.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
  • This, to me, represents how Tesfaye has had to bifurcate himself in order to produce music and star in and completely rewrite The Idol.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of bifurcate
Verb
  • The glorious few who still worry about the decline of Palm Beach society speculated wildly that Trump was planning to legalize gambling and build a casino, or — the truly frightening possibility — subdivide his acreage and sell houses.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • These large partitions are then subdivided into smaller ones, called macros and standard cells.
    Somdeb Majumdar, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of subdivide
Verb
  • The canal bisects Panama, running 51 miles end to end.
    Alma Solís, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Many of his mixed media works are busy, bisected, and richly colored.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of bisect
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fragmentize

fragmentized

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