as in crevices
an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure
lava flows up through a fissure in the earth's crust
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Recent Examples of fissures
Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.
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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
Once enough cars have sped over these fissures, chunks begin breaking off to create those infamous potholes that pop tires and ruin shocks.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
This magma chamber beneath the lake charges the maar with millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), which seeps up through fissures in the lake floor.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Crews discovered fissures in the bedrock that required repair and struggled to find grips strong enough to hold cars on the steep grade.
—Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
In a time when the country feels almost irreparably broken along its partisan fissures, and political comedy has become a minefield for controversy, Wood is looking to bridge the gaps in his own way, and maybe leave behind a few lessons of his own for others to pick up.
—Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
This invisible, climate-polluting gas can escape into the water through fissures in the sea floor, often revealing itself with a stream of bubbles weaving their way up to the ocean surface.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Johanon's remarks centered on the fissures in society.
—Detroit Free Press Staff, Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2025
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
Once enough cars have sped over these fissures, chunks begin breaking off to create those infamous potholes that pop tires and ruin shocks.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
This magma chamber beneath the lake charges the maar with millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), which seeps up through fissures in the lake floor.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
Crews discovered fissures in the bedrock that required repair and struggled to find grips strong enough to hold cars on the steep grade.
—Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
In a time when the country feels almost irreparably broken along its partisan fissures, and political comedy has become a minefield for controversy, Wood is looking to bridge the gaps in his own way, and maybe leave behind a few lessons of his own for others to pick up.
—Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
This invisible, climate-polluting gas can escape into the water through fissures in the sea floor, often revealing itself with a stream of bubbles weaving their way up to the ocean surface.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Johanon's remarks centered on the fissures in society.
—Detroit Free Press Staff, Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fissures
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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.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
6 Nov. 2025
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The invasive beetles from Asia would burrow through bark, the females laying eggs in crevices.—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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The European Union is also likely to take a strong role, though internal rifts have emerged within the EU regarding how aggressively to cut its own emissions.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Stranger Things season 5 will pick up the story in the fall of 1987 at a time when the military has placed the entire town of Hawkins under military quarantine over the rifts that emerged.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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On both, the upper features two distinct elements split by an uneven gold line intended to replicate the use of the metal to seal cracks on broken pottery.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
11 Nov. 2025
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On the other end, the Wave started to break through the cracks a little more, including a couple golden looks in the 74th minute.—
Austin White,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Fissures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fissures. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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