fragmenting

verb

present participle of fragment
as in disrupting
to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly you can fragment that peanut brittle easily, but how it breaks is basically up to the brittle

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Recent Examples of fragmenting As the diffusion of power fuels geopolitical rivalries, Americans are growing weary of entanglement in a fragmenting world. — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026 Keeping Australian production viable amid rising costs and fragmenting audiences remains her priority. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026 Niacinamide, collagen, saw palmetto and vitamin D each target a different mechanism, which is part of why the category is fragmenting into specialized products rather than consolidating around a single hero formula. — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026 As organizations from Seattle to Berlin increasingly deploy open-weight and open-source models for cost and compliance reasons, the risk of fragmenting the ecosystem along regional or ideological lines grows. — Kevin Korte, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026 Yet ecology research indicates that fragmenting habitat by breaking it up with roads and development results in panther deaths. — Timothy Randhir, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026 Even a few lux of light can suppress melatonin, potentially shortening and fragmenting sleep, Wickramasinghe said. — Stephanie Anderson Witmer, HEALTH, 17 Sep. 2026 Marketing agents, sales agents, and service workflows may each optimize for local objectives while unintentionally fragmenting the broader customer narrative. — Harvard Business Review, 4 Sep. 2026 Montemayor told Campus Insights Media that alcohol disrupts rest at a biological level, fragmenting sleep into short bursts that leave a person feeling drained the following morning. — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragmenting
  1. disrupting
  2. fracturing
  3. breaking
  4. disintegrating
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  • Earlier this month, Ukrainian drones connected to Starshield lost connectivity at high speeds, disrupting air defenses during daily Russian air attacks.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The new enforcement effort is disrupting daily life as some parents with visitor visas avoid crossing altogether.
    — Angela Kocherga, NPR, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of disrupting
Verb
  • Michael Flynn was 28 and working towards earning his PHD in theoretical physics when the 30-foot-long dead tree limb fell over 27 feet onto him, fracturing his skull and changing his life forever.
    — Madisen Keavy, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Apart from the group’s buy-in to doing the little things, its commitment to unselfish football keeps one of the most dynamic running games in the country from fracturing.
    — Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of fracturing
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  • Reporter covering breaking and trending news Jay-Z will headline the Super Bowl halftime show in February, the NFL announced Monday, putting the award-winning rapper into the spotlight seven years after his company started producing the event.
    — Aoife Walsh, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
  • That puts Adebayo just seven rebounds from breaking Udonis Haslem’s franchise record of 5,791 rebounds in a Heat uniform.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of breaking
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  • The stars have grown lethargic and limp, with lesions spread across their bodies, their arms falling off or disintegrating.
    — Joseph Ogilvy, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Segan’s thriller takes as its central dramatic question the tension between the analog and the digital, the New York that’s coming into being in the 2020s and the New York that’s disintegrating to bring it to life.
    — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of disintegrating

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“Fragmenting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmenting. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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