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Obi told AFP in an interview last month he would bring down consumer prices in part by cracking down on corruption.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

"This study really takes a novel approach for cracking therapeutic resistance in pancreatic cancer," says study co-author Ronald Evans, PhD, professor and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology at Salk.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

As transit networks grow, cities around the world are actively cracking down on bad behaviour to ensure a peaceful commute for all passengers.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

In his most recent essay, Amodei reiterated cracking down on unauthorized distillation in countries, such as China, and on chip smuggling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

When she comes in, she kneels to Boo, her knees cracking.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

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

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

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix

The Hungarian wheat is red, shrivelled, and hard, and it is this hardness that fits it so well to the successive crackings which constitute the process of "high milling."

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various