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fissure

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

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

The fissure split and grew, like those scenes in disaster movies when an earthquake cracks the streets apart and chases the hero.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

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

From Slate Mar. 4, 2026

Day after day the pitiless sun blazed down, scorching whatever still struggled to grow and baking the earth hard until at last it split and great irregular fissures gaped in the land.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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 9 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

The essence of workplace fissuring is control without responsibility.

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

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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