How to Use fragmentation in a Sentence

fragmentation

noun
Definition of fragmentationnext
  • Others think this may be the start of a new trend of fragmentation.
    — Micah Singleton, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The truth is, fragmentation can go beyond what the eye can see.
    — Nicole Heimann, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Can’t wait to see all the piracy and fragmentation backfire on them for this.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The idea is to reduce that fragmentation ... ensure the forests themselves have a chance to adapt, on their own with our help.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The biggest threat to the species is habitat loss and fragmentation, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
    — Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The fragmentation makes it so the DNA cannot create a whole protein that could be harmful.
    — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 3 July 2020
  • But such shifts may not be as easy today due to loss and fragmentation of their habitats.
    — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Loss and fragmentation of the longleaf pine ecosystem has led to a decline in the number of pinesnakes.
    — Sara Sneath, NOLA.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • That has certainly led to some fragmentation in the space.
    — Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • Even with Assad out of the picture, the new coalition might not be able to stop the further fragmentation of Syria.
    — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
  • The world is entering a new, more intense era of fragmentation that is going to change the way the internet works.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 28 Oct. 2020
  • And the agents of fragmentation are as obvious as the efforts to conceal them are frantic.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The biggest issue is the fragmentation of the region’s bus systems.
    — Camille Squires, Quartz, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Right now the concern is that the fragmentation is more substantial on a smartphone.
    — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The fragmentation is occurring on the surface level of the net, rather than on the lowest levels.
    — Justin Sherman, WIRED, 6 June 2019
  • In the event of fragmentation, sloths end up in urban areas where things like traffic become a threat.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2019
  • And is social media doomed to more and more fragmentation?
    — Leah Feiger, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The turtles are up against a lot, Ballard said, even beyond loss and fragmentation of habitat.
    — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2021
  • The second story is the bigger one — and that is the growing fragmentation of the German party system.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Jha also points to the fragmentation among NGOs and climate change activists.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 24 July 2019
  • Instead, Rhoads crafts a score based on this idea of social fragmentation from which the dancers improvise.
    — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • This region faces threats from logging, mining, the fragmentation of forests by road projects, and climate change.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Former alt-righter Matt Forney said in a recent blog post that this fragmentation was part of a larger trend.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 6 July 2022
  • Fuchsia might help Google fix the worst thing about Android — fragmentation.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Android has enough issues with fragmentation and updates, and the Pixel is supposed to be the example of how to do it right.
    — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The fragmentation has become more acute in recent decades.
    — The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Using a process of micro fragmentation, scientists can spur corals to grow up to 50 times faster.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Through that fragmentation, the country has lost millions of acres of large forests and important wildlife habitat.
    — Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Both the flow and the fragmentation of the Turkish is tremendously difficult to render in English.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • This lack of interoperability generally results in fragmentations of AI systems that cannot reach the complete dataset required for their accuracy.
    — Erum Manzoor, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024

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