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crack

[krak] / kræk /




NOUN
attempt to do something
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It also reports that the Church of England will raise "concerns" with MPs and peers scrutinising draft legislation to crack down on conversion practices, as part of the paper's campaign to scrap the bill.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Lower crack spreads could boost Qantas’s stock, although Macquarie frets that a potential entrant to Australia’s aviation sector might delay recovery at home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

But last week, the company said it would replace any phones that were impacted by an issue that caused a "small number" of the new phones to crack along the inside fold.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

But he has promised to repair the damage done to Israel's international standing by the devastating Gaza war, and to crack down on West Bank settler violence.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

I open it a crack, and Sadik is standing there.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

“With cracks broadly stable quarter on quarter at multidecade highs…the sequential jump came from a lower crude basket cost, better margin capture and higher throughput,” analysts Bineet Banka and Abhishek Bhandari write in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

“Interest rates get in the cracks, interest rates affect directly or indirectly, almost everything,” Warsh said Wednesday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

They suggest that heating during atmospheric entry, along with cracks left by previous collisions in space, may weaken the rocks enough to explain this unexpected behavior.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

A mother has said she feels her son has been "abandoned and is falling through cracks in the system" because of a lack of support for young adults with learning difficulties.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

More stones fell; more cracks spread up the walls.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

That latter bit is certainly true for filmmaker Taika Waititi, whose otherwise tacky-yet-progressive veneer cracked last weekend when he took to Instagram to condemn the poor reviews of his latest film, “Klara and the Sun.”

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

He said he was "delighted" that the expert team at Amgueddfa Cymru and Cardiff University cracked the padlock code after he spent years trying to solve the mystery himself.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Experts have cracked a four-letter code to open an ancient padlock from a shipwreck off the Welsh coast using modern scanning technology.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Inside the Science Center, Endeavour’s payload bay doors are cracked wide open, like a car’s lifted hood — but they were built for space, not Earth’s gravity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

It was the statue of a capital king that had cracked at the waist and toppled.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

Their work remixes the thrill of early internet exploration into colorful abstraction, cracking open an esoteric feeling to analyze its contents and origin — to varying effect.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

Plus, banks are cracking down on credit-card points junkies, and France became the poster child for debt woes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

They finish each other’s sentences and switch up their Google Meet backgrounds, cracking up as an awkward graduation portrait pops up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

He played the role with honesty and accessibility, cracking jokes as a teen whose health condition was never mentioned in the series.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

He tried to talk a couple of times—“What—What—” but he kept cracking up.

From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli


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