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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

It began a crack down on the conspiracy group in July, when it banned thousands of accounts that had been spreading baseless BS which Twitter said had “the potential to lead to offline harm”.

It also introduced rules meant to crack down on the spread of misinformation through these more private networks.

The separation of phenomena by length, as quantified by the renormalization group, has allowed scientists to move gradually from big to small over the centuries, rather than cracking all scales at once.

By midmonth, the state had recorded possibly the hottest temperature ever measured on earth — 130 degrees in Death Valley — and an otherworldly storm of lightning had cracked open the sky.

So in order to crack the live-streaming commerce market in the west, he said there had to be a strong, trusted point of view to stand out.

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We see a system that will indict a 20-year-old for selling crack but not a police officer for choking the life out of a citizen.

“The crack baby myth is being recapitulated in terms of NAS,” Sunderlin said.

The night before he bought a lot of crack-cocaine on credit with no way to pay, intending to kill himself after smoking.

Of course, nobody could have foreseen that the floor would begin to crack.

The door opened a crack and for a second I was tempted to give in again.

This was a hard nut to crack, if his past were not to be ruthlessly severed from Angel's by a word.

There was no fight in his men; they ran like a pack of frightened coyotes at the first crack of a gun.

Here, said Toby, as the young Jew placed some fragments of food and a bottle upon the table, Success to the crack!

There is always something doing there, and I opened the door a crack to hear what was under discussion.

Should the coating crack at the knee or elbow joints, it is merely necessary to retouch it slightly at those places.

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

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