fissure

Still, a fissure remains between those actors who stay morally opposed to cloning, and those who embrace this new reality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Ultimately, it will come down to the amount of time that passes and the depth of the fissure between you and your son and daughter-in-law.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

The platinum spike may have come from a volcanic fissure eruption in Iceland rather than an object from space.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2026

Fittingly, the sound creates a crack in one of the home’s windows: Via that fissure, the unfolding apocalypse creeps into their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

Prickles rising on the nape of my neck, I bent to scrutinize the tree trunk more closely: silvery bark, cool to the touch, ants marching out of a fissure in a glittering black thread.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

The lake has dried up due to a combination of factors, including geological fissures that drain water underground, below-average rainfall and repeated heatwaves.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Concrete slabs between the homes had started to crack or buckle, with some of the fissures running all the way up to or under the homes’ walls, the news outlet reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

As Hass delicately puts it, “The open divergences between Washington and its partners over the war’s legitimacy, execution, and fallout have exposed fissures that risk metastasizing to other issue areas over time.”

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

In recent days, there have been public fissures between Iran’s civilian leadership and military hard-liners in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps over how much to bend to U.S. demands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

Not openings or breaks, but dark fissures in the globe light of the day.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

A nearby building had deep fissured in its façade.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

This is “the scar that history has given us,” Boucheron continues, and ever since “we have been born already fissured, disturbed, uneasy.”

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2026

“Not every slave worked directly for their owner—just like in today’s complex fissured workplace, where not every employee is working directly for the employer with whom they signed an employment contract.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025

Neighborhoods near the golf course are under a city-issued evacuation warning, with the fissured land moving about nine to 12 inches a week and houses cracking and sliding off their foundations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024

Suddenly, the stony cliffs beneath her cracked and fissured.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

Workplace fissuring reduces wages by blocking workers from access to higher wages, career ladders, and workplace protections such as union rights with the lead firm.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2020

But this filmmaker’s penchants for relaxed jungle odysseys, fissuring narratives and unexpected appearances by talking monkeys hardly begin there.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2016

When rifting of Pangea started at approximately 200 Ma, the fissuring was along a different line from the line of the earlier collision.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

The snow that had come down from the avalanches was fissuring, caused by an air pocket below.

From Time ● Jul. 9, 2012

The skin is hairless, faintly reddish, smooth and shining, with a varnished and thin appearance, and with a tendency to fissuring.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon