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More: The stock market’s calm surface is cracking.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

The next cut to drug prices is unlikely to come from cracking the economics of copying complex molecules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

That pushed the company to delve into other areas including advertising, cracking down on password sharing and gaming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 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

Mama was humming a song, and the tune was cracking my skull open like a nut.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

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

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

Some of the poor creatures had foals, which were tied up a little distance off, and which kept up a piteous whinnying, as an accompaniment to the lashings and crackings of the whips.

From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie

And so, in the dim of the dawn—and to the defiant crackings of that long and sharp-resounding whip, the three forever fled the sweet fields of Saddle Meadows.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman