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 fossil remains were recovered from fissure deposits located on both sides of the Bristol Channel in southern Wales and southwest England.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 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

Her mother would step into the fissure and touch that horrible spire—and she would be absorbed.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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

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

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

From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2026

The largest of these holes were rimmed with ridges of broken rock, and broad fissures ran out from them in all directions.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Harrenhal's gatehouse, itself as large as Winterfell's Great Keep, was as scarred as it was massive, its stones fissured and discolored.

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

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

Later there is the partial shedding and fissuring of the undermined horn and the exuding of the characteristic discharge—in this case not so watery as that of canker.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks