fissure
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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
Its release was surrounded by chatter of a fissure between the two leads, and the pair have since feuded publicly about each other’s behavior during and after filming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 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
The fissure in the earth had filled with gold and precious stones, bubbling in a thick soup of petroleum.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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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
There are fissures between many groups, with a huge array of conflicting issues at stake.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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
Rohinton Mistry’s novel explores how all the fissures within this family are deepened by this development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Their epicenter was a small ring with fissures circling outward.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
The Wailing Tower only wailed when the wind blew from the north, and that was just the sound the air made blowing through the cracks in the stones where they had fissured from the heat.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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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
Various gases also, rendered liquid by pressure at great depths, may aid in causing volcanic outbursts, and in fissuring and convulsing the rocks during earthquakes.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
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