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But under pressure from several countries including the United States, Britain and China, Cambodian authorities say they are cracking down on the industry.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

"We have a contempt for criminality and a commitment to cracking down on people committing serious offences in Merseyside," a force spokesman added.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Their work remixes the thrill of early internet exploration into colorful abstraction, cracking open an esoteric feeling to analyze its contents and origin — to varying effect.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

As I wrote last week, China’s growth model is cracking under the weight of weak demand and mounting debt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

They continued rapping by cracking their joints, which became how their older sister, Leah, made a living that supported them all.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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

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

Just as the night jasmine gives up its perfume to the night, so does an old house its past in the form of murmurs and crackings and memories and suggestions.

From The Ghost Girl by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

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 George Burnham Ives