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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Where the previous constellation of images had tended toward the fragmentary, these emphasized a serial, more comprehensive approach.
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Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Ethiopians have welcomed Abiy’s promises to end the Meles regime’s sometimes heavy-handed repression of political rights, but the country is now wrestling with the fragmentary pressures of ethnic politics that Meles managed to contain.
—Terrence Lyons, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
Advertisement Books Pedro Almodóvar’s first book, like his movies, blends reality and fiction: ‘A fragmentary autobiography’
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As Roberts describes in cringey detail in the book, his fall from grace came a little bit at a time, then all at once.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
But ultimately, this fragmentary evidence is not enough to determine if Ancient Macedonian and Hellenic split from a common, pre-Hellenic source or derived from distinct Indo-European proto-languages.
—Victor A. Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2018
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Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Ethiopians have welcomed Abiy’s promises to end the Meles regime’s sometimes heavy-handed repression of political rights, but the country is now wrestling with the fragmentary pressures of ethnic politics that Meles managed to contain.
—Terrence Lyons, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
Advertisement Books Pedro Almodóvar’s first book, like his movies, blends reality and fiction: ‘A fragmentary autobiography’
Sept. 16, 2024
As Roberts describes in cringey detail in the book, his fall from grace came a little bit at a time, then all at once.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
But ultimately, this fragmentary evidence is not enough to determine if Ancient Macedonian and Hellenic split from a common, pre-Hellenic source or derived from distinct Indo-European proto-languages.
—Victor A. Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2018
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“Fragmentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragmentary. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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