as in mad
unable to think in a clear or sensible way
Are you completely cracked?
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as in choked
to yield to mental or emotional stress
after hours of tough questioning the suspect finally cracked and blurted out a confession
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as in deciphered
to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language
the United States military used the Navajo language as a code during World War II, and the enemy never cracked it
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as in knocked
to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner
cracked the bow of the ship with a champagne bottle
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as in solved
to find an answer for through reasoning
I've been mulling this riddle, but I just can't crack it
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as in disturbed
to cause to go insane or as if insane
cracked by years in solitary confinement, the prisoner could only maunder incoherently
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Recent Examples of cracked
Shanti Escalante-De Mattei,
ARTnews.com,
19 May 2026
Shake good and hard for eight to 10 seconds, strain into a rocks or tall glass onto cracked or crushed ice, and garnish with a lime wheel, wedge, or peel.
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Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
9 May 2026
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
1 July 2026
None of the potential candidates cracked majority favorability.
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Josh Bergeron,
Charlotte Observer,
1 July 2026
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As Jacobs described Lacan’s theory that babies initially form a cohesive I upon seeing their reflection, images of babies looking into cracked mirrors appeared on the screen.
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Shanti Escalante-De Mattei,
ARTnews.com,
19 May 2026
Shake good and hard for eight to 10 seconds, strain into a rocks or tall glass onto cracked or crushed ice, and garnish with a lime wheel, wedge, or peel.
—
Jason O'Bryan,
Robb Report,
9 May 2026
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Precious metals like gold and silver have recently cracked below their long-term moving averages.
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Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
1 July 2026
None of the potential candidates cracked majority favorability.
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Josh Bergeron,
Charlotte Observer,
1 July 2026
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Getting mad about missing out on signing Anfernee Simons won’t change that.
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When World Cup season descends upon soccer-mad Brazil, green and yellow banners decorate restaurants, bars and apartment buildings, streets are painted with flags and soccer balls, and discussions of the beloved national team's games are ubiquitous.
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Eli White popped a ball up to shallow center field for what should have been the third out.
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This time, Arsenal popped City 5-1 and Gabriel very much enjoyed laughing and celebrating in Haaland’s face.
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The aisles were so choked that blooms and branches brushed against us, the air heady with the scent of lilies, roses, eucalyptus, and sweet decay.
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The lines are growing at Russian gas stations — and so is the frustration and uncertainty as several months of Ukrainian attacks have set oil refineries ablaze and choked supplies for motorists across the vast country.
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Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober.
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The signature was deciphered with the help of AI, and specialists at auction house Lyon & Turnbull were able to confirm that Cadell was the artist.
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Tatis led off and knocked Boyd's fifth pitch over the left-field bleachers onto Waveland Avenue, before Chicago answered in the bottom of the inning when Seiya Suzuki scored on Carson Kelly's RBI single.
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Kale said her 11-year-old and 16-year-old sons knocked the bat off her and killed it.
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The Limits Of Vendor Defenses In December 2025, OpenAI acknowledged publicly that prompt injection, like scams and social engineering, is unlikely to ever be fully solved.
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Since then, the company’s creations have solved painfully difficult problems in fields from mathematics to computational biology.
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The location of the digging also could have disturbed another grave that may now be unmarked.
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Home to North America’s tallest mountain, Denali's six million acres of wilderness are disturbed by only one road.
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The defense argued that Bland had a psychotic episode due to a COVID infection.
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The experience in question was a psychotic break that Murray endured in 2017 after spending several months involved with a wellness cult, coming to believe herself capable of powerful healing abilities.
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“Cracked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cracked. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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