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Recent Examples of rupture
Noun
His goal is to build a support system for Andy, the half-brother, after Dyer has died and despite past family ruptures. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025 Big Thief has endured both, and for years, their very survival seemed to suggest that no rupture was insurmountable. Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
The senior coroner for Cheshire, Jacqueline Devonish, said at the hearing that Lilly's spleen didn't rupture until the morning of her death, so there was nothing that could have previously alerted medics, according to the Guardian. Becca Longmire, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025 And in mice with more advanced conditions, with unstable plaques that are more likely to rupture, treatment reduced the plaque size by 52%. New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for rupture
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rupture
Noun
  • There’s no telling where Kody Clemens might be had Kyle Hendricks’ errant pitch not struck Luke Keaschall’s forearm in exactly the right spot to cause a fracture.
    Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The new glue can be injected directly into a fracture site to help speed up bone repair.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • London — The Duke of Sussex reunited with his father, King Charles III, for their first face-to-face meeting in 19 months on Wednesday, triggering speculation the royal family’s long-running rift might soon come to an end.
    Max Foster, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This snowballing controversy over seemingly simple pieces of paper launched endless online arguments, dominated the news cycle, and gradually began to serve as a microcosm of the fathomless ideological rift among Americans, many of whom view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a zero sum game.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • What lingers are the fragments that weren’t rehearsed, a voice breaking, a note pulled from the back of a notebook, a chant that filled the room, a line spoken more to a spouse than to the cameras.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Bolt-action rifles, prized for reliability, require the operator to pull the trigger for one round before manually chambering another round.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, the Enchanted glittered with edible pink shimmer dust, and bursting with fruity, botanical flavors – Grey Goose with watermelon basil essences, vermouth and basil.
    John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The streaming bubble burst eight months before Willow’s premiere, so the move was part of a much larger cost-saving initiative.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Wyatt exited and then returned to the project amid creative fissures, including wrangling over the movie’s tone, pacing, and length.
    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
Noun
  • The quiet schism in sports over whether to acknowledge Kirk as an important figure cut down in a senseless murder may reflect today’s uneasy balance between conservative power and the norms of what are often regarded as apolitical spaces, particularly by conservatives themselves.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Beneath the immediate conflict lies a deeper ideological schism.
    Khaled Hassan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Well, Kristina Collins, MD, a dermatologist based in Austin, broke it down for me.
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Her backing, however, did not immediately break the dam and usher in more establishment Democratic Party support.
    Lauren Green, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Microwave ovens, which came along much later, enjoyed more widespread ownership and usage, both above 90%, in spite of urban legends about how microwaves will explode your pets and lower sperm counts.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Previous estimates have suggested that the largest possible black holes would take longer than the hypothesized lifetime of the universe to explode.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Rupture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rupture. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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