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fissure

[fish-er, fizh-er] / ˈfɪʃ ər, ˈfɪʒ ər /
NOUN
gap
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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

Volcanoes in Iceland are capable of producing fissure eruptions that last for years or even decades, consistent with the 14 year platinum signal.

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

The bus fell into three-metre-wide ice fissure on Friday, Kobzev said in a post on Telegram.

From BBC Feb. 21, 2026

Tayo looked up at the big orange sandrock where the wild grape vine grew out of the sand and climbed along a fissure in the face of the boulder.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

There are fissures between many groups, with a huge array of conflicting issues at stake.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 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

Their epicenter was a small ring with fissures circling outward.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

Bake for another 5 to 7 minutes, or until the cookies have fissured and are golden at the edges.

From Washington Times Aug. 15, 2023

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

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

It is more or less persistent, the tendency to fissuring varying considerably according to the state of the weather, often disappearing spontaneously in the summer months.

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




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