rift
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Multiple sources said talks started within Chelsea's ownership group after a rift, first apparent in 2024, led both sides to explore buying each other out.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
The rift then deepened as Harry published his tell-all memoir "Spare" and the couple gave a no-holds-barred interview to US talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Her observations complicated the existing picture because shallow buoyancy forces could explain much of the expected motion across the rift, but not the movement running along it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
Three years ago, Two Sigma disclosed a rift between John Overdeck and Siegel to investors as a material risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
They settled on this complicity: they would not heal their rift — their mysterious rift — but bridge it, with manners.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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As of late August, two large rifts were still present.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Harry's 2023 autobiography, "Spare", lifted the veil on his royal rifts, describing William as his "arch-nemesis" and alleging he physically attacked him in a blazing 2019 row about Meghan.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
To counter the growing threat across Fae territories, Prythian’s fractured Night Court must overcome internal rifts and recent betrayals to restore former alliances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
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 next morning, they picked their way across an ice field splintered by jagged crevasses, keeping to the solid expanses between the deadly rifts, and arguing about Nina’s sleeping habits.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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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
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
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From a distance only comes a heavy sound, as the ice-covering of the Neckar is heaved and rifted by the combating flood that rushes beneath it.
From The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt
Continental rifting happens when Earth's rigid outer shell begins to stretch and thin.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
Researchers have spent decades trying to understand the full chain of processes involved in continental rifting, from deep-mantle motion to cracking and earthquakes at the surface.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
He added: "Our work suggests that tectonic uplift related to continental rifting and breakup created both steep slopes and high ground, providing the mountainous terrain that rivers and glaciers could readily erode."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 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
Except a change of wind or, as Procope observed, a supernatural rifting of the rock, nothing could bring deliverance now.
From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Jules Verne
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