rift
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But it’s the rift between May and Lotta that centers this busy story, which includes more subplots than can be quickly synopsized here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Still, he thinks there is some shared responsibility for the rift.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The wide, elevated rift flanks predicted by the new simulations also appear in images captured by the Magellan probe during its 1990's mission.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
Homeowners spend thousands to ward off the pantry-raiding, toothpaste-sniffing beasts, exposing a rift among volunteer groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“We know it leads to something important in Rome, something that might heal the rift between the Romans and Greeks.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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Differing opinions on the hotel, after Kebatu's offending in July 2025, led to rifts among neighbours who co-existed peacefully for years.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
The results show that broad elevated ridges, called rift flanks, develop along the sides of rift valleys when the rifts are geologically young.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
His first book takes the reader from preseason fantasies through rifts within the team to the loss of his starting place and finally his exit from Millwall after nine years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
While rescue workers have exhausted themselves in cold water, the odyssey has also featured heated rifts between veterinarians and self-proclaimed "whale-whisperers", fundraising scams and esoteric attempts to heal the whale through chanting.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
All about it the earth gaped, and from deep rifts and pits smoke and fumes leaped up.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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"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
When Columbia rifted apart, the division happened within the area of the Purcell/Belt rocks.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
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
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
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No doubt her soul had taken another peep through the rifted curtain that was shutting out her future, and beheld something that must have appalled her.
From Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Glenwood, Ida
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
"The thinner the crust gets, the weaker it becomes, which helps promote continued rifting," Rowan says.
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
Other volcanoes can let their lava loose from rifting landscapes relatively quietly, while others unleash unexpected blasts of steam.
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
Over the world's darkness a slender moon, sharp-horned, wandered through rifting clouds.
From Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain by Kinney, Margaret West
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