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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rifted
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Frontwoman Phoebe Lunny fractured her neck and sustained an acute brain injury in Australia, the rock band confirmed in an April 8 Instagram post.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
10 Apr. 2026 -
The Ngogo community, numbering roughly 200 individuals, fractured into rival clusters that researchers identify as Western and Central.—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2026
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The star guard, who tore her ACL for the first time before her junior year of high school, grappled with injuries throughout her first four seasons with the Huskies, first a foot injury that sidelined her for 11 games in 2021-22, then a knee injury that kept her out of 22 in her sophomore year.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
14 Apr. 2026
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Davis' absence led to the team keeping Kyrie Irving sidelined the entire season after the star guard tore the ACL in his left knee in March 2025.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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After all, left tackle Ickey Ekwonu ruptured his patellar tendon and is expected to miss some time in 2026.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Apr. 2026
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Woods ruptured his Achilles last year just before the Masters, returning from the injury in the The Golf League championship just four days before his arrest.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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Weathers was charged an additional run after issuing a leadoff walk in the sixth and getting pulled from the game.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
15 Apr. 2026
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The picture represented every second of invisible labor that pulled me away from the little people who mattered most to me, all the work that stole my ability to be present in those moments and remember them, too.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Apr. 2026
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Luis Campusano ripped an 0-2 slider for a double to left-center after missing on two sliders.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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The junior outfielder/catcher went 3-for-4, ripped a two-run homer and drove in four runs to lead the host Griffins to a 10-4 win over Lemont in Frankfort.—
Steve Millar,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Patterns on vessels were often incised into the mold itself, as this technique allowed for fine details to be transferred from mold to object.—
Teagan Wolter,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
13 Mar. 2026
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Little climbed into a trench and bent over a vertical stone that was incised with a web of typically Orcadian geometric patterns.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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The figure, which includes units that are hotel-managed or listed on short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb, has become a proxy for how deeply tourism has penetrated the city center housing market.—
Tiisetso Motsoeneng,
semafor.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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The cyber intrusion appeared to use similar tactics and techniques employed by a Chinese hacking effort known as Salt Typhoon, which penetrated major telecommunications providers in an unprecedented breach, according to the source with knowledge of the matter.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
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Some of the women were bleeding from their reproductive organs, while others had blood dripping from slashes on their breasts, their bodies having been lacerated with a sharp instrument.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Apr. 2026
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In the process, one robber violently shoved the store’s octogenarian owner to the ground, police said, leaving him bloodied and lacerated from numerous shards of glass.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
22 Dec. 2025
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“Rifted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rifted. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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