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Habermas was born with a cleft palate that required repeated operations as a child, an experience he later said helped shape his thinking about language and communication.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
Reported problems include spina bifida, cleft palate, and a range of intellectual, communication, behavior and memory disorders.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2025
She’s desperate to find a refuge for herself, “a cleft in the rock of the world” that she could hide in, as she tells him after her secrets have been exposed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2025
He had the darkest eyelashes I’ve ever seen, short and tidy fingernails, and a cleft chin that could fit a Canadian loonie.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2024
The trail led them north along the top of the escarpment, and at length they came to a deep cleft carved in the rock by a stream that splashed noisily down.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
The timing of when DNA methylation occurs, was critical to the development of orofacial clefts.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2024
Holes, slits and clefts are common, surrounded by clay inscribed with organic patterns.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
The protein is large and globular, and it doesn’t have deep pockets or clefts on its surface where a drug could slip in.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2021
They communicate across infinitesimal gaps known as synaptic clefts.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2018
Then the breeze died too and there was no noise save the drip and trickle of water that ran out of clefts and spilled down, leaf by leaf, to the brown earth of the island.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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