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fracture

[frak-cher] / ˈfræk tʃər /


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Kartal, 24, missed more than six months with a stress fracture in her back, but has won five of her seven matches since returning to action.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

One concern is the risk of a compression fracture, which is when a vertebra collapses, usually as a result of osteoporosis, according to Banner Health’s Fisher.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Talking about songwriting devices, here’s a trademark Akriila move: A song may be moving forward, and suddenly there’s a fracture — everything breaks and decomposes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Von der Leyen told the European Parliament in Strasbourg that, as democracies face a "fracture in the international rules-based system", Brussels and Ottawa needed to pull closer together.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

"Looks like a fracture," an ambulance attendant said, feeling her right ankle.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

Margaret suffered fractures to her femur and shoulder and needed surgery, but is yet to leave Royal Glamorgan Hospital.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

To investigate how these fractures influence the movement of heat, researchers at Nagoya University in Japan examined the samples using a technique called lock-in thermography.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Others have not lost their fighting spirit, like Ahmed Ali Mahmoud who is smiling and animated, despite multiple fractures.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

That might make you more vulnerable to foot fractures, according to a 2023 analysis of high-stack running shoes with carbon-fiber plates published in Sports Medicine, with Tenforde as the lead author.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

A different voice fractures the peace—one full of fear—and I tear my gaze away from the splendor.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok recently pointed out that the market has fractured into two camps: AI stocks, and non-AI stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026

It’s another song about a fractured relationship in which obsession reaches a boiling point, as if we’re seeing the couple from “Happy for You” in a different but equally disturbing phase.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The idea of one song taking hold among the entire nation’s teenagers is even more ridiculous now that streaming has fractured the musical monoculture.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

We’ve crossed it at all hours in every kind of weather, on foot, on bikes and in cars, talking about school, work, family and, lately, the fractured state of the nation and world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Instead of hanging their orders on a rack, the waiters shouted them out, in Greek, Spanish, and a kind of fractured English.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Splintering, fracturing and rampant "mini-lateralism" will only be applauded by Europe's adversaries, they believe.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

That raised fresh concerns about the appeal of U.S. assets in a fracturing world — and one where yield is no longer hard to find.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

They also revealed dislocations moving from the layer interfaces into the surrounding CoAl layers, helping explain how the material could deform without quickly fracturing.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026

The film also shows Maddox and her father in a vicious argument inside her car that illustrates the fracturing of their once-close bond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Stone was going through a difficult time in her personal life as the women’s movement was fracturing into separate organizations in 1869.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling


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