Example Sentences

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ECB President Christine Lagarde has previously sought to talk up the euro as a potential new global reserve currency, arguing the economic order backed by the dollar was "fracturing".

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

The expedition was fracturing from the effects of altitude.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023

The ice was fracturing around them, opening in gaping cracks.

From National Geographic • Dec. 24, 2020

Prof. Wendy Hall, a computer scientist at Southampton University in England, said the British proposal showed how the internet was fracturing around the world, with different regions adopting different standards.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2020

Stone was going through a difficult time in her personal life as the women’s movement was fracturing into separate organizations in 1869.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling