1
as in to disrupt
to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly
fractured his arm in the fall
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2
as in to violate
to fail to keep
civil liberties that have been fractured by the government's actions
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as in rupture
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Recent Examples of fracture
ABC News,
23 June 2026
As for Liam, the teen fractured his femurs and lost his left arm.
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David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
Kasha Patel,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
The San Andreas fault is a fracture in the Earth that runs 800 miles northwesterly from the Salton Sea in the south up through San Francisco in the north.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
18 June 2026
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Verb
Brexit fractured the European Union, and broke British politics.
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ABC News,
23 June 2026
As for Liam, the teen fractured his femurs and lost his left arm.
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David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
22 June 2026
Noun
Earthquakes happen when a sudden slip along a fault — a fracture in Earth’s crust where rock masses move against one another — releases energy built up over time.
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Kasha Patel,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
The San Andreas fault is a fracture in the Earth that runs 800 miles northwesterly from the Salton Sea in the south up through San Francisco in the north.
—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
18 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fracture
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The fires also disrupted travel across parts of Miami-Dade County.
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Poor nutrition, lack of physical activity and health conditions like metabolic bone disease can disrupt bone remodeling, leading to weaker bones over time.
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Trump said that Iran violated the ceasefire agreement and that US aircraft struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations, as well as coastal radar sites.
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But both have accused the other of violating their end of the agreement.
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His successors have all grappled, largely unsuccessfully, with the consequences of that rupture.
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Though earthquakes can cause dramatic ground movement — tearing ruptures in land and moving larger areas by several inches — such movement is typically more localized than the country-long seismic event detected by Park and her colleagues.
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Puncture wounds are a classic example, but lacerations, fractures that break the skin, burns, crush injuries and even relatively minor cuts can also pose a risk if they are contaminated with dirt or debris.
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The fissure was visible before the war.
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So, too, does the idea that a soccer coach could close fissures that even the well-meaning among career politicians have failed to seal.
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In it, DeLillo uses the Kennedy assassination to examine how conspiracy theories give shape and sense to an increasingly fragmenting culture.
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The problem is that point solutions are fragmented by nature.
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Their retreat from royal life sparked a long-standing rift within the family.
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The rift is increasingly public.
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Since the trade, Reese has been on a tear.
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Some houses have plumbing lines that run through the ceiling—mainly to minimize tear-down during plumbing disasters.
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“Fracture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fracture. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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