fragmentate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmentate
Verb
  • Traditional models, often fragmented across departments, are frequently focused on near-term (monthly, quarterly or current fiscal year) goals and are highly reactive to change, rather than responsive to it.
    Tom Strohl, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • People without health insurance cannot access services, services in the county are fragmented, and low income creates additional barriers for residents, especially residents of color, the story found.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Online social networks are getting smaller and more intimate, as young people organize into group chats and segment their identities across different platforms.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Many SMBs also choose to segment their local-area Wi-Fi network to ensure sensitive data (such as credit card information from a point-of-sale system) is segregated and protected.
    Michael Flannery, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This military incursion sparked the American Revolution and led to the Constitution's Third Amendment, forbidding troops from being quartered in homes during peacetime.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • LeMessurier also realized his engineers had miscalculated how much stress would be offset by the building’s weight during quartering winds.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • But some scientists, while endorsing the need to drastically reduce planet-heating pollution, warned against cutting off research into polar geoengineering.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This was in Brighton, in the south of England, in a valley, cut off from the outside world.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, muntins are the thin, vertical and horizontal pieces of wood that form a pattern within that latticework and provide structure for fittings such as Shoji screens and Fusuma sliding doors that are used to partition rooms in a house.
    Isabelle Kliger, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In 1947: After three decades of agitation led by Mahatma Gandhi, India and Pakistan won independence from Great Britain and were partitioned into separate countries.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • See video … Tune in to the FOX NEWS RUNDOWN PODCAST to break down the murder on the Charlotte light rail and if it could have been prevented.
    , FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • If Tuesday’s revision is on the high end of the estimate, at 900,000 jobs, that would break down to a downward revision of 75,000 jobs per month.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • What lingers are the fragments that weren’t rehearsed, a voice breaking, a note pulled from the back of a notebook, a chant that filled the room, a line spoken more to a spouse than to the cameras.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Bolt-action rifles, prized for reliability, require the operator to pull the trigger for one round before manually chambering another round.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The films are succinctly dissected, too.
    Michael Taube, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That’s partly why next week’s Fed policy meeting will be even more closely dissected than usual.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
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“Fragmentate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentate. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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