Synthesis of fragmentary notes into a conjectural whole, such as:

The fragmentary notes for the remainder of the novel indicate two different trajectories for the plot and five separate conclusions.

But there is no shorthand here, or the sort of fragmentary notes that normal people use to remind themselves of things.

Left were 202 sheets of fragmentary notes.

As observant of people as ever, Adams recorded his impressions in vivid, fragmentary notes of a kind kept by no other member of Congress.

The compensation committee, which set pay for Mr. Kozlowski and Mr. Swartz, also sometimes met in the United States but took no or fragmentary notes.

The first sketch is a single leaf dated 28 February 1974, with brief and fragmentary written notes about the general musical and theatrical course.

Because the convention was secret, and only fragmentary notes were kept by a few participants, there exist what he termed "great silences" about the drafters' thoughts.

I possess fragmentary notes, brief tales, isolated episodes.

He is not known to have toured East Anglia, for which only a few fragmentary notes survive.