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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

Sylvia the Musical tells the story of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst and the family rift caused by the fight for women's voting rights.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

A spokesman for Becerra, who led Hilton 58% to 33% in a recent UC Berkeley/Los Angeles Times poll, was gleeful about the rift the ad was creating among Republicans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“There is a real rift across the globe, so experiencing a moment where the shared desire is simply to unite, to gather, and to be together—that feels good.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

A huge rift opened up, the ocean rushing in with a roar that drowned the seabirds’ cries.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

As AI has the potential to cure diseases, it also causes rifts in pretty much every creative industry, including literature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Parker has been mending rifts professionally for 25 years, but she insists that her skill set shouldn’t be special.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

As of late August, two large rifts were still present.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 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

Divergent boundaries form where existing plates are rifted apart, and it is hypothesized that this is caused by a series of mantle plumes.

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

The view of how mountains were built and seabeds stretched and rifted, and how continents oozed out of place and out of shape, was itself shifting, upthrusting, subducting.

From Time Magazine Archive

One way led to Beaver Dam Lake, the other rifted deep through rocky outcrop, leading to the Waterline Range.

From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn

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

She explained that geological activity such as mountain building and continental rifting has disturbed many older rocks, making them more difficult to analyze.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026

As the crust becomes thinner, it also becomes weaker, making it easier for rifting to continue.

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