as in incomplete
lacking some necessary part
the historical record of this pharaoh's life and reign is fragmentary at best
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While her book is at times fragmentary and episodic, marked by abrupt discontinuities, the cumulative effect is powerful, eloquently testifying to the horrific consequences of this conflict.
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Rebecca Donner, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
That muon then created its own fragmentary debris, sparking a ripple of telltale pale blue photons dubbed Cherenkov radiation that passed over ARCA’s instruments.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
Back in 2009, a fragmentary dinosaur skeleton, including vertebrae, limb bones, and hip bones, was unearthed in the Upper Cretaceous Dalangshan Formation of Sihui City, Guangdong Province, China.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Feb. 2025
The final chapters in the Amistad edition are fragmentary, and the book ends abruptly, ten years before Herod’s death.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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Rebecca Donner, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
That muon then created its own fragmentary debris, sparking a ripple of telltale pale blue photons dubbed Cherenkov radiation that passed over ARCA’s instruments.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2025
Back in 2009, a fragmentary dinosaur skeleton, including vertebrae, limb bones, and hip bones, was unearthed in the Upper Cretaceous Dalangshan Formation of Sihui City, Guangdong Province, China.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Feb. 2025
The final chapters in the Amistad edition are fragmentary, and the book ends abruptly, ten years before Herod’s death.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Fragmentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentary. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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