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Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and other Orange County towns are cracking down on elaborate shade coverings, citing safety issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Africa's largest oil producer has increased production in recent years in part by cracking down on theft while also hiring former militants who sabotaged pipelines to act as security.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Minetree has "cracking comic timing", the Independent said, but appeared to be "hemmed in by the Reese Witherspoon impression she's presumably been told to do".

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

But as the country struggles with a slowdown and enormous debt, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is cracking down on officials who try to boost their careers with flashy projects and rash policies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

The cracking got louder, and then there was a huge crash as something enormous came rushing toward us in the darkness.

From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth

All the Arctic peoples had been thrown into panic, and so had the animals, not only by the fog and the magnetic variations but by unseasonal crackings of ice and stirrings in the soil.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

I said nothing, and Leper, having said so much, went on to say more, to speak above the wind and crackings as though his story would never be finished.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

The campus was impressive for what happened within its walls: chest crackings, organ transplants, molecular imagings, genetic probes, and virtually any other medical service known in the advanced world.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

In others, the joints, although stiff, can be moved but exhibit pronounced crackings.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

And each adjective is set off with a rattling fusillade of crackings from his great whip.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa