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Recent Examples of splintered
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2026
The aftermath left shattered concrete and splintered wood — visible reminders of what Villar calls reckless driving.
—Miami Herald, 30 Dec. 2025
Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost screws and tiny hunks of splintered paint.
—Maggie Koerth, CNN Money, 8 Dec. 2025
In the late 1830s, as a devastating financial crisis bankrupted antislavery societies across the North, the movement seemed splintered and powerless to keep up its petition pressure campaign.
—Time, 24 Sep. 2025
Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
In 2016, a group known as the Islamic State West Africa Province splintered from Boko Haram and declared allegiance to the Islamic State.
—Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2025
Since a March 2020 tornado splintered its Holly Street building, the East End United Methodist Church has been conducting services at the Warner Elementary Arts Magnet School.
—Stuart Dyos, Nashville Tennessean, 14 Dec. 2025
Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 historical fiction novel, the film follows playwright William Shakespeare (Mescal) and his wild-eyed wife, Agnes (Buckley), whose relationship is splintered by the tragic loss of their young son, Hamnet (Jacobi Jupe).
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
Specifically, the Brookshire Freeway took homes from McCrorey Heights and I-77 splintered Oaklawn Park.
—Charlotte Observer, 25 Nov. 2025
Millions of Americans now face spiking health care premiums, and the president’s party is splintered over how to respond.
—Steven T. Dennis, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2025
War in Gaza The Democratic Party splintered over Israel and a war in Gaza, which began more than two years ago.
—Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 14 Nov. 2025
The Mary’s rudder soon splintered against a rocky bar at the entrance to Natal Bay – what is now Durban, South Africa.
—Adam L. Rovner, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Use it as a tablecloth or to cover hard seats or splintered benches, or spread it out for a picnic lunch.
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Together with thin shallot rings, the bird fries in a coating of rice flour to achieve an airy crispness and plenty of splintered, shattering bits of batter.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for splintered
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And the oversized top has a split hem that falls below the bum.—
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The split vote denied the motion, which would've sent it to Ocean City Council for the next steps.—
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Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford sliced up defensive coordinator Ejiro Evero’s unit in the final two minutes.—
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Grate it for a slaw, or add it thinly sliced to salads for a refreshing crunch.—
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Painting seems like an easy fix for cracked or discolored grout.—
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Besides being dangerous, downloading cracked software also poses legal risks.—
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Zoë Kravitz, Kristen Stewart, Lily Allen, and Quinta Brunson have all had their bangs chopped above mid-forehead.—
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After rocking a bob back at the Met Gala, Anderson chopped her chin-length strands even shorter just in time for Paris Fashion Week.—
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Some astronomers believe the source of the glow to be pulsars — the spinning leftovers of exploded stars — while others point to colliding particles of dark matter, an elusive and invisible form of matter that is believed to be five times more abundant than regular matter.—
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Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis says reaching the center of the wreckage at the exploded ammunition plant will be slow and complex.—
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In Tracker, Justin Hartley stars as Colter Shaw, a professional bounty hunter with a fractured family and a complicated love life, but in real life, the actor is a husband and father.—
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Dos Santos’ latest injury, a fractured cheekbone suffered early in last week’s loss to the Timbers, could be a season-ender.—
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Years of authoritarian consolidation have hollowed out state institutions, politicized the military, weakened the judiciary and fragmented political opposition.—
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In reality, return challenges are often a symptom of fragmented systems across the entire commerce lifecycle.—
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Ripley spent four movies trying to keep the blasted things off our home world, but those pesky Xenomorphs are coming planetside anyway in Alien: Earth, the new Alien TV series.—
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Her ballerina background, however, is fairly extraneous, even with De Armas made to stare solemnly at that blasted music box during her rare moments of rest.—
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“Splintered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splintered. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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