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fissure

noun as in gap

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They are weeks into a major renovation after a fissure forced apart rooms in their home.

The cast’s performances and undeniable chemistry shored up the many fissures threatening to collapse the premise’s integrity—at least, enough to pull us through.

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Observations from Earth and orbiting probes suggest that some of this water works through fissures in the ice and blasts through in geysers over a hundred miles high.

Rolling Hills Mayor Pro Tem Jeff Pieper acknowledged the fissures in the community but said: “It’s been like that for decades.”

Neighborhoods near the golf course are under a city-issued evacuation warning, with the fissured land moving about nine to 12 inches a week and houses cracking and sliding off their foundations.

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

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