fissure

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

Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a warmer tone at this year’s Munich Security Conference, but European officials say the trans-Atlantic fissure remains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 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

Though most of the film is spent building up to this fissure, “Oh. What. Fun.” stumbles when Claire and her family separate.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

They had not gone very far when they came upon a great fissure that yawned suddenly black before their feet.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The unraveling of the truce sparked fresh fissures regionwide, involving unexpected places and combatants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Colin Woodard, director of the Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University, divides the US into a number of distinct identities, connected to those early fissures:

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 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

He’s doing this in a way that exposes serious fissures within his own party?

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

Enormous it looked, its sprawling branches going up like reaching arms with many long-fingered hands, its knotted and twisted trunk gaping in wide fissures that creaked faintly as the boughs moved.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Black poplar can be identified by its deeply fissured bark and triangular leaves with mature trees often leaning to one side.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 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

The next day, dawn broke as they were crossing a cracked and fissured plain of hard red earth.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

The union is already fissuring as a result of a huge migrant flow from Syria and elsewhere, combined with an economic crisis.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 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

In spite of a considerable amount of violence which has caused the escape of the core, the fissuring of the mantle is comparatively slight.

From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins