cracking
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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
What kind of teenager isn’t playing video games, cracking open bottles of Sparkling Apple Cider or sleeping at midnight on New Year’s Eve?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
He started on road patrol, then last year moved to financial crimes, where he began cracking cyber scams considered almost hopeless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Decoder Ring, Slate’s podcast about cracking cultural mysteries, turns its investigatory powers inward to explore what exactly a “podcast” is these days, as more and more shows pivot from audio to video.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
There weren’t two people in the world who were better at cracking cases.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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
Odd little crackings sounded in far corners, and a whispering, starting somewhere in that upstairs hall, came slinking down the wainscoting, across the hall carpet, and out beneath the front door.
From Stubble by George Looms
With a shrill yell and more crackings of his whip he disappeared into the gloomy mouth of the covered bridge, and the roaring echoes followed him.
From The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day
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