cracking
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But they face challenges cracking an industry long considered too local, fragmented and diverse to accommodate big-money investors, people who work on these deals say.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
And if there's one way to get a UK dancefloor going, it's cracking out The Killers' Mr Brightside, and the crowd at the main stage thanked him by chanting back every lyric.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Its potential applications range from enabling breakthroughs in drug development and materials science, to cracking encryption techniques widely used in computer security.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
The evidence suggests that extreme heating from the Sun is cracking the asteroid's surface, releasing trapped gases and causing the body to slowly crumble apart.
From Science Daily • May 14, 2026
That cracking, crunching noise was the loudest sound I’ve ever heard in my whole life.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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