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IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
The internal fissures mirrored the national debate within the party that some believe could imperil the reelection hopes of President Biden and the balance of power in Congress.
—Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2023
Support for the war remains high among the Israeli public, but a political fissure appeared to widen Thursday with calls for Netanyahu to step down.
—Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
Scientists suspect that the 2021 eruption kicked off a decades-long period of fissure eruptions across the peninsula; something similar happened 800 years prior.
—WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
Until now, the eruptions were relatively small fissures in remote areas and posed little risk to people or infrastructure.
—Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir Bloomberg (wpns), arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
Right now, within very different dramatic containers, two productions are bearing tragic witness to great fissures in justice itself — wounds that, old or new or ongoing, feel raw and deep, incompletely healed, if at all.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2023
The paths to the summit are becoming longer, as climbers have to go around risky cracks and fissures.
—Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
There are over 130 volcanoes here, as well as a variety of geysers and volcanic fissures.
—Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2023
New York Times, 23 June 2023
The other stream of cultural anthropology will continue to evolve and fissure, as a thousand 'discourses' bloom.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2013
But where some teams fissure under the weight of unfulfilled expectations, going through that experience collectively made this group even tighter.
—Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 June 2021
The statements made by Camille Locht and Jean-Paul Mira fed into a world already fissured by deep-rooted racial and economic discrimination.
—Gale Ure, Quartz Africa, 25 Apr. 2020
Even before Saturday’s major aftershock, which fissured more roads and prompted more landslides, Puerto Rico estimated damages from a 6.4-magnitude quake on Tuesday at $110 million.
—Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2020
This land is made of igneous rock fissured with gold.
—Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
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Word History
Noun
Middle English, borrowed from Middle French & Latin; Middle French fissure, borrowed from Latin fissūra "splitting, crack, opening," from fissus, past participle of findere "to split, cleave" + -ūra -ure — more at bite entry 1
Verb
derivative of fissure entry 1
Noun
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb
1656, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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