cleft
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"It was her leg which was stuck within a rock cleft, and there was some space around the side of it and also nodules of rock which were stopping it from coming out," Rees said.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Schimberg, who became friends with Pearson during “Chained for Life,” also drew from his own experience with a cleft palate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024
He had the darkest eyelashes I’ve ever seen, short and tidy fingernails, and a cleft chin that could fit a Canadian loonie.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2024
The model will allow them to rapidly screen thousands of dietary and environmental factors in a laboratory dish before testing the impact of specific factors on cleft susceptibility in mouse models.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2024
“What he said was ‘facial issues,’ and you just assumed that he meant cleft palate.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
The timing of when DNA methylation occurs, was critical to the development of orofacial clefts.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2024
And there will be paintings — the latest from her ongoing series depicting faceless torsos and abstract clefts, bodies alone or cleaving.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
Although it only covers about three square miles, the coastline is so ragged with “geos” — deep clefts in cliffs — that walking the circumference takes longer than you might think.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021
The protein is large and globular, and it doesn’t have deep pockets or clefts on its surface where a drug could slip in.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2021
Along the crest of the ridge the hobbits could see what looked to be the remains of green-grown walls and dikes, and in the clefts there still stood the ruins of old works of stone.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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