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Groundwater that had been seeping into their shelter burst through a crack in the wall, forcing Vlasenko and Andriy up into the pipe itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

While the costly phone, which sells for £1,999 in the UK, immediately sold out, some buyers have seen their screens crack.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

But last week, the company said it would replace any phones that were impacted by an issue that caused a "small number" of the new phones to crack along the inside fold.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

It is taboo in China to crack jokes about Mao, who died in 1976 and whose drastic policies are blamed by historians for mass starvation and millions of deaths.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

After a while he disappeared through a crack in the floor.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Once applied, the gel forms a thin but durable coating that penetrates the tooth's surface and fills microscopic cracks and gaps.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

“Interest rates get in the cracks, interest rates affect directly or indirectly, almost everything,” Warsh said Wednesday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

A mother has said she feels her son has been "abandoned and is falling through cracks in the system" because of a lack of support for young adults with learning difficulties.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Right at the moment when more cracks materialize, Ye-ji invites this broken family for a shared weekend at Sang-woo’s vacation mansion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

My back cracks in places I didn’t even know existed.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

That latter bit is certainly true for filmmaker Taika Waititi, whose otherwise tacky-yet-progressive veneer cracked last weekend when he took to Instagram to condemn the poor reviews of his latest film, “Klara and the Sun.”

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

“This is what you’ve always wanted. Here’s the keys to the car,” he cracked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

He said he was "delighted" that the expert team at Amgueddfa Cymru and Cardiff University cracked the padlock code after he spent years trying to solve the mystery himself.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Users list pale or grey-looking skin, dark under-eye circles, dry or cracked lips, hair shedding and weak nails, while others share portraits claiming stark visual differences.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Madame Ionesco cracked her knuckles as if preparing for a fight.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

But under pressure from several countries including the United States, Britain and China, Cambodian authorities say they are cracking down on the industry.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Their work remixes the thrill of early internet exploration into colorful abstraction, cracking open an esoteric feeling to analyze its contents and origin — to varying effect.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

If the models went from being stumped by long division to cracking the quasi-Riemann hypothesis in five years, how will the next five years play out?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

They finish each other’s sentences and switch up their Google Meet backgrounds, cracking up as an awkward graduation portrait pops up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

It would be there, with the tar on the canvas drying and cracking, until great holes appeared and the currach wasted away.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff