Example Sentences

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That is fragmenting commerce and fueling price volatility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

Medellín Legorreta and others contend that the project, now under construction, is fragmenting rainforest habitat and will harm scores of species.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 11, 2023

As a result, the African plate is fragmenting into two, with the constituent Somali and Nubian plates moving away from each other at the normally negligible rate of 1.9-6.9 millimeters per year.

From Slate • Apr. 2, 2018

Beyond the prairie, the push to mine gravel is fragmenting longstanding farming communities.

From Washington Times • Mar. 18, 2017

Europe is fragmenting into micro-nations while unifying its economies.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel