splintering
- present participle of splinter.
Example Sentences
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Instead, the middle class is splintering along generational lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
Now this very coalition is splintering as his support spirals downward.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026
Individual investors kicked off 2026 by taking a page from the playbook of global central banks and stockpiling gold as a hedge against a splintering world order.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026
“Or you get chaos and splintering and regionalization,” Ratney said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
It was as if the trees couldn’t wait to fall over, as if their sole purpose in the universal scheme of things was to grow big enough to topple with a really good, splintering crash.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
