as in fissures
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 crevices
How To Keep Stink Bugs Out Stink bugs can squeeze into tight spaces between siding, crawl into cracks and crevices in window frames, and enter through open doors, windows, and vents.
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
The invasive beetles from Asia would burrow through bark, the females laying eggs in crevices.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
The surrounding mountains are just pink rock piles sprouting cacti from their crevices.
—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
Fascistic creep bubbles like lava through the crevices of America’s political and cultural substrata.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
Use an old toothbrush to scrub the corners and crevices.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
Methane has been measured escaping from crevices in the seabed at a high rate as the region warms at unprecedented rates, according to a paper published in Nature Communications.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025
To avoid the penalty and still take advantage, teams are piling their biggest and most powerful defenders around the edges of the long snapper and using the crevices around a mostly stationary player to get into position for the block.
—Nate Atkins, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
The invasive beetles from Asia would burrow through bark, the females laying eggs in crevices.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
The surrounding mountains are just pink rock piles sprouting cacti from their crevices.
—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
Fascistic creep bubbles like lava through the crevices of America’s political and cultural substrata.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
Use an old toothbrush to scrub the corners and crevices.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
Methane has been measured escaping from crevices in the seabed at a high rate as the region warms at unprecedented rates, according to a paper published in Nature Communications.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025
To avoid the penalty and still take advantage, teams are piling their biggest and most powerful defenders around the edges of the long snapper and using the crevices around a mostly stationary player to get into position for the block.
—Nate Atkins, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crevices
fissures
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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
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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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“Crevices.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crevices. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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