ripples

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“The Cost of Divorce” is the name of a new series examining what tears marriages apart, and the many directions the damaging ripples spread.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

Here, the sun cast stark, dramatic shadows across the moon’s steep cliffs, rugged ripples and seemingly bottomless craters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

JPMorgan says the precise impact is difficult to quantify, but the ripples are being felt in many different ways in the industry.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

When light passed through two narrow openings, the resulting pattern resembled the overlapping ripples produced when two stones fall into water, creating an "interference" pattern.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

The ripples it made turned into flame-capped waves as a long, gnarled shape sliced up through the surface and into the air.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia