cracking
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Now, the league is cracking down on his antics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
More: The stock market’s calm surface is cracking.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and other Orange County towns are cracking down on elaborate shade coverings, citing safety issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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
“Mom?” she asked, cracking the door open just a smidge.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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
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 Looms, George
The fruit is not yet gathered, and a thousand unaccustomed snappings and crackings make the trees resemble animate beings.
From The Devil's Pool by Ives, George Burnham
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