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fissure

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

Like the fissure between Tim and Millie, the cracks in our once-perfect relationship formed so gradually I didn’t even notice them.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2025

However, there has been little concern to aviation as these recent eruptions are mostly small fissure eruptions with large and slow lava flows - rather than the explosive ash eruption from Eyjafjallajökull.

From BBC Apr. 15, 2025

All I could think of was the fissure in the dining room pavilion, where those skeletons had been consumed last summer.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" 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

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

From Slate Mar. 4, 2026

The SDF had long shown fissures among the Kurdish, Arab and other factions that made up its force.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 24, 2026

Then I looked down and saw fissures in the pavement.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

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 9 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

The essence of workplace fissuring is control without responsibility.

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 only deformed Lee-Metford bullets that I saw removed from the body were of the 'slipper' variety, exactly corresponding to the similarly altered Mausers, and with no fissuring of the mantle.

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




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