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A rift earlier this year between US President Donald Trump and the pope sparked global headlines.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The sediments had undergone a complicated history of repeated deposition, burial, exposure, and movement within the Dead Sea rift and the surrounding landscape.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

A later rift stemmed from a dispute over a writing credit, according to Riskin’s daughter Victoria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The increasingly public rift hasn’t led to an exodus of clients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Here was the place he had described, where suddenly, in this massed section of boulders, was a rift, a deep gap in the rocks, a place where she must jump to the next foothold.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Growing diplomatic rifts threaten the international ties that have helped power Israel’s economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Raman has said she initially joined the group because of its work on tenant protections, but her divergence from their agenda over the years has created rifts.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Some of the rifts can't easily be smoothed over.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

I studied a lot of church literature because churches have a lot of reckonings and internal rifts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

I’ve personally witnessed several family rifts because so-and-so didn’t invite so-and-so to their wedding even though they had the nerve to invite a family friend.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

"In essence, we now have a front row seat to observe a critical rifting phase that had fundamentally shaped all rifted margins across the world," says co-author Folarin Kolawole, who is also with Lamont.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

This region was rifted apart during the breakup of the supercontinent Columbia, after which sedimentation continued on the western margin of Laurentia with the deposition of the Windermere Group.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

When Columbia rifted apart, the division happened within the area of the Purcell/Belt rocks.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Heezen thinks that the Atlantic Ocean is a very old crack that has rifted over and over and grown 3,000 miles wide.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Hard Pines the bark-formation begins early and the trunks of young trees are covered with a scaly or rifted bark.

From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw

Ethiopia's Afar region remains an active rifting zone, shaped by tectonic forces and volcanic eruptions.

From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026

"In essence, we now have a front row seat to observe a critical rifting phase that had fundamentally shaped all rifted margins across the world," says co-author Folarin Kolawole, who is also with Lamont.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

The team also uncovered signs of an earlier rifting episode that did not lead to a full continental split.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

“There are a variety of older structures in the range, too, due to ancient rifting, that could be reactivated.”

From National Geographic ● Sep. 11, 2023

Q. "Hello, Corporal," said Pete, with a capacious grin rifting the powder grime on his face.

From Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign by John McElroy