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
Wyatt exited and then returned to the project amid creative fissures, including wrangling over the movie’s tone, pacing, and length.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Trump is facing a catch-22 in the face of growing fissures at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and mounting departures of scientists and experts over vaccine policy.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025
Israel's devastating attack on Gaza, which has killed more than 62,000 Palestinians, including over 18,000 children, is exposing deep ideological fissures on the American Right.
—Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Vegetation also can conceal deep fissures and cracks.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2025
These magma-spewing mounds are responsible for 80 percent of the country’s seismic activity, including glowing fissures that splinter the landscape for up to 2 miles.
—Robin Catalano, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025
The measures eventually passed after internal Democratic fissures led to enough representatives returning to form a quorum.
—Rachael Dziaba, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2025
Militia groups have always been relatively splintered, but the insurrection exacerbated the fissures.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
Over eons, water dissolved the calcium carbonate, etching deep fissures and caverns into the stone.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Jake Kanter, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Trump is facing a catch-22 in the face of growing fissures at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and mounting departures of scientists and experts over vaccine policy.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025
Israel's devastating attack on Gaza, which has killed more than 62,000 Palestinians, including over 18,000 children, is exposing deep ideological fissures on the American Right.
—Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Vegetation also can conceal deep fissures and cracks.
—Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2025
These magma-spewing mounds are responsible for 80 percent of the country’s seismic activity, including glowing fissures that splinter the landscape for up to 2 miles.
—Robin Catalano, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025
The measures eventually passed after internal Democratic fissures led to enough representatives returning to form a quorum.
—Rachael Dziaba, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2025
Militia groups have always been relatively splintered, but the insurrection exacerbated the fissures.
—Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
Over eons, water dissolved the calcium carbonate, etching deep fissures and caverns into the stone.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fissures
Noun
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Key prevention strategies include sealing cracks and crevices in walls, roofs, and around windows and doors.—
Matthew Binnicker,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The females wait folded within crevices in bark.—
Rosanna Warren,
The Atlantic,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Later level and Ankou rifts (secret battle stages) require adept knowledge of the game’s overlapping combat systems.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
3 Sep. 2025
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Establishing ground rules ahead of time can hopefully help avoid hurt feelings, which can grow into deeper rifts over time and have negative effects on children and potentially rob them of a fruitful relationship with their grandparents.—
Tom Huddleston Jr.,
CNBC,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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As the image of a college education providing the future to financial security has already started to show cracks, here is another — the top and bottom poverty rates by major.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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More importantly, however, investors are expecting that the recent raft of weak economic data — which have shown growing cracks in the labor market — will mean the Fed will have to start cutting to support growth.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Fissures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fissures. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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