fracture
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A fracture that has been building quietly for years has now erupted into open warfare.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
They tend to form gradually as confidence begins to fracture, often invisibly at first.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
He had surgery on an ankle injury that included a fibula fracture, sustained following a challenge by Micky van de Ven as he scored against Spurs in a 2-1 win on 20 December.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
Both broke at the same critical stress point, suggesting that elasticity is not responsible for the fracture behavior in simple liquids.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
But we passed under one dead tree, leafless but still standing, and I looked up through its branches, which intersected to fracture the cloudless blue sky into all kinds of irregular polygons.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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