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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

SINGAPORE—The crowd gasped as the brokers swung the wooden mallets on the lid of the sake barrel, cracking it open in celebration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

“How much we miss her and love her,” the longtime NBC personality said, her voice cracking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 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

“How many stars in the sky?” he repeats, cracking open an eye to stare at the ceiling like he’s imagining the night sky.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

She found herself painfully acute to all the little tickings and crackings and buzzings that an open country window brings to one's ears.

From Stubble by George Looms

No signal crackings, no thin jets or streams from the green immensity beyond.

From A Maid of the Silver Sea by John Oxenham