rift
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Appeared in the May 8, 2026, print edition as 'Trump and Brazil’s Lula Seek Reset, Easing Diplomatic Rift'.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Near the Azores, a comparable trench system called the Terceira Rift is forming in another region where the oceanic crust is unusually thick.
From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026
Coaxed and tugged by rangers, a blindfolded giraffe totters into the specialised vehicle that will transport it away from an increasingly hostile environment to a new home in Kenya's eastern Rift Valley.
From Barron's • Nov. 17, 2025
Fourteen schoolchildren were among the dozens of Kenyans killed when two mudslides struck the Great Rift Valley area, according to the country's education ministry.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025
It skirts the lakes at the bottom of the Rift and passes through groves of fever trees, yellow-green and glowing in the sun.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Vocabulary lists containing rift
Geological Features
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Africa - Introductory
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