rupture
Example Sentences
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Even so, this defeat could mark a more fundamental rupture than the crises she has survived before.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
At a routine 20-week checkup, however, she learned that she was suffering from preterm premature rupture of membranes and that her baby would not survive.
From Slate • May 4, 2026
It turns a long-running dispute over oil production limits into a formal rupture at a moment when the Iran war is already testing the cartel’s grip on global crude markets.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Mr. Bessent sketches a picture that is less rupture than recalibration.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
But it was real, I know that much, it was a physical rupture — a cracking-leaking-popping feeling.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Vocabulary lists containing rupture
Make a Break for It: Rupt
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