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Continuously using two of, like:

A fragment of a wheel of the car
A method of study of that student

Does this make any sense? Or does this look and sound bizarre?

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We prefer to use compound nouns or possessives to avoid repetition where possible, but where it's not possible, yes, it's fine to use repeated "of".

Your examples aren't natural, and should read:

A fragment of a wheel from the car
That student's study method

It's difficult to find a natural example of repeated "of", but here's one from the title of a comedy album:

"The Pick Of The Best Of Some Recently Repeated Python Hits Again Vol. II"

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    I agree with your answer, but I'm puzzled why you think "from the car" is more natural than "of the car", cf. Ngrams. – stangdon Aug 11 '22 at 11:19
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    @stangdon I guess it doesn't mean "from the car" is more natural than "of". It's just "from the car" also works and it can avoid using "of" twice. Just my assumption. – Gabe Ebag Aug 11 '22 at 12:29
  • @stangdon I picture a fragment of a wheel as not on the car anymore, so it's from the car. If it were, "I could only see a portion* of the wheel of the car*", then yes, "of" is better. – gotube Aug 11 '22 at 17:03