crevice

as in fissure
an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure steam escaped from a long crevice in the volcano

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Recent Examples of crevice While working in his cave, Dill found a crevice leading to an upper level. Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 30 Oct. 2025 The invasive beetles from Asia would burrow through bark, the females laying eggs in crevices. Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025 No trail, just rock after rock, a phantom rattlesnake curled in every crevice. Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 Most vacuums are fit for the job with an attachment suited for getting into small crevices. Krystal Nurse, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crevice
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Noun
  • Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The journalist Beth Macy, who in her previous books chronicled the widening fissures in American society by examining the opioid crisis and the aftereffects of globalization, grew up there.
    Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
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  • In an exchange reproduced on screen, a fan asked Stause about her rift with Hernan.
    Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Whether the courts view that rift as administrative failure or unlawful negligence may determine the financial futures of a generation of borrowers—and the credibility of the agency that lent to them.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025

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“Crevice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crevice. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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