shard

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Recent Examples of shard Not this tiny Isis, or Byzantine slave bracelet, or blue-green shard of Roman glass. Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025 While that was happening, the common window through which most Americans learned about the country and the world — TV, newspapers, radio — was shattered into dozens of shards of glass, based on consumer's personal preferences. Axios, 8 Jan. 2025 The white medieval cloaks, adorned with primary shards of color, symbolized brilliance and spirituality reaching out to the people. NBC News, 7 Dec. 2024 During the early stages of the excavation near Poole Harbour at a construction site in a diverse wetlands habitat, there wasn't much to be found other than a few shards of pottery and some flint, Environment Agency archaeologist Greg Chuter said in a video posted by Wessex Archaeology. Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for shard 
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Noun
  • In the cartoonist Barry Blitt’s portrayal of the upcoming Inauguration Day, the new President is sidelined into a dash of yellow hair and a sliver of red tie.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Where American Primeval has at least allowed a sliver of ambiguity when portraying whether or not Young was complicit in the massacre’s cover-up until now, there’s none of that here.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Blumberg worked with Tilbury, for instance, for around two weeks, sitting in the garden shed where the pianist keeps his Steinway, with Blumberg recording as Tilbury scribbled notes on a stave and played fragments of song.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins — the formal name for species in the human lineage — who lived between 300,000 and 100,000 years ago.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Both are abrasive particles with sharp edges that can irritate eyes, respiratory systems and skin.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
  • At some point the classical simulation will just fail because bouncing balls will never be able to replicate the peculiar quantum mechanical laws obeyed by sub-atomic particles.
    Vineer Bhansali, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The asking price is a speck under $15.5 million, with the listing held by Delaney Fox of Keller Williams Sun Valley Southern Idaho.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Murphy’s face is hidden behind the camera whose flash illuminates specks of dust that hang in the air.
    Carolina A. Miranda, ARTnews.com, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In terms of the film’s relevance, the narrative sets up a symbolic situation that offers a glimmer of hope.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The Blackhawks saw a glimmer of that in Connor Bedard’s rookie season.
    Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There is only one back-to-back set, right before the break on Feb. 8 and 9. Upstart goaltenders have made big splashes in Montreal in the past.
    Carol Schram, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • And Barreto is a fan of the Chinese evergreen for a splash of color.
    Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Others less so: Tiny flecks of indium make the screen sensitive to the touch of a finger.
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • And in the very center of the panel, in flat, dark country, in literal no man’s land, is a small, broken vertical line consisting of flecks of white paint.
    Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Hundreds of commenters who had never met the couple thanked her for the shred of good news.
    Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The record’s new-wave ditties are an amalgamation of strange but immediately identifiable components, chimeras of ’60s pop à la Lesley Gore and the frenzied shred of a skateboarding compilation.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024

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“Shard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shard. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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