fissure

Example Sentences

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Though most of the film is spent building up to this fissure, “Oh. What. Fun.” stumbles when Claire and her family separate.

From Salon

“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

Perhaps the fissure should bring to mind Nordic depression, or familial misadventures in communication.

From The Wall Street Journal

There’s a crack in it that seems to represent the fissures in the family, the flaws in their facade.

From Los Angeles Times

Asked about the fissure, Cortez Masto responded evenly and with diplomacy.

From Los Angeles Times