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splintered

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verb

past tense of splinter

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for splintered
Adjective
  • These belts require a bike to have a split chainstay to install them, and removing the rear wheel to deal with a flat can be cumbersome.
    Chris Cona, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Much is at stake in this multimillion-dollar special election, in part because the results will determine whether the current, evenly split county board will have a Democratic or Republican majority.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Galls can begin semisoft but harden with a cracked surface over time, though plants won’t necessarily display symptoms the same season or year they were infected.
    Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In recent years, several stretches of the aqueduct system have been drained to allow replacement of cracked and bulging sections of century-old concrete.
    Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2023
Verb
  • After all, a double-digit yield isn’t much good if it is soon chopped to single digits.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • In the intervening decades, though, the surviving members have seen their statement get chopped and screwed into morsels, divorced from its context.
    Jazmine Hughes, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • But SpaceX’s success required long experimental phases and lots of exploded rockets, all of which cost money.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Seen through telescopic eyes, the night sky is dotted with the glowing remains of exploded stars.
    Jayson Stewart, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • His daughter Trinity Rodman, a professional soccer player for the U.S. National Team, discussed their fractured dynamic in a December episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast.
    Jason D. Greenblatt, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The fractured former couple spent a day in September 2022 arguing about custody of their son.
    Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The real challenges lie in operational inertia, fragmented adoption and underutilization of existing tools.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 8 Apr. 2025
  • United Rentals, which was founded to essentially roll up a fragmented and inefficient industry, believed that the best use of its enormous free cash flow generation was to buy up competitors to drive growth through acquisition.
    Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The watch measure 44 mm, is made from blasted titanium and features a honeycomb skeletonization of the case that reduces the weight by 50 percent, Ross told Robb Report.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2024
  • When the moment of triumph finally arrived, with a blasted inside-in forehand to the postage stamp corner of the court, Djokovic, 37, crouched to his knees and immediately succumbed to the first set of tears.
    Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 4 Aug. 2024
Adjective
  • In November 2023, a 62-year-old American woman was killed aboard the Viking Polaris when a rogue wave crashed into a window and she was struck by broken glass, according to WCVB-TV.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 3 Apr. 2025
  • This was mostly used when the group was building night nests—platforms made high in the trees out of broken branches, sometimes lined with leaves.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Splintered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/splintered. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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