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crack

adjective as in super, first-rate

noun as in break, crevice

noun as in loud sound, usually from hitting

noun as in attempt to do something

Strongest matches

noun as in insulting joke

verb as in break, usually into parts

verb as in lose self-control

verb as in hit very hard

verb as in discover meaning, answer

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Example Sentences

And while newer studies had started to describe conscious top-down mechanisms, no specific brain circuits were discovered until the Salk team took a crack at the case.

A mum with kids requiring refrigerated medicines for cancer rang up with her voice cracking because she could not afford her £5 prepayment top-up and asked to be put onto a credit direct debit.

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Mr Walsh is also sceptical of whether people smuggling gangs can be cracked at scale, drawing the comparison of drugs gangs.

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Jimmy Morris and his three children — two teenage sons and a teenage daughter — are among the families that might fall through the cracks.

Trump campaigned in large part on the idea that cities have become chaotic and unruly and that he could impose more order by cracking down on homeless encampments and open drug use.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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