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

Nicola Sturgeon was never going to get through her book promotion without having to talk about gender – it was an issue that caused a real fissure in the SNP.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

And out the demons came—from every cave and crevice, through every fissure and crack, from under the rocks and up from the mud, stomping and shuffling, slithering and sliding, through the murky shadows.

From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster

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

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Celebrated Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda specializes in gentle, sentimental films about the tiny fissures that form along the foundation of families.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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

“Great” Tally’s skin tingled, her eyes picking out the dark fissures all around them.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

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

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