- present participle of crack.
cracking
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But Interior Minister Laurent Nunez stated that security forces "are not cracking down on young people" but rather "protecting" school and university students wishing to "peacefully voice their demands".
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
"This study really takes a novel approach for cracking therapeutic resistance in pancreatic cancer," says study co-author Ronald Evans, PhD, professor and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology at Salk.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
As transit networks grow, cities around the world are actively cracking down on bad behaviour to ensure a peaceful commute for all passengers.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Although college programs dedicate countless man-hours to cracking any secret in their opponents’ plans, turning the magnifying glass toward their own habits is a far greater challenge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Buddy Stein: I pictured him telling scandalous jokes, cracking his knuckles when he got to the punch line.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
All the Arctic peoples had been thrown into panic, and so had the animals, not only by the fog and the magnetic variations but by unseasonal crackings of ice and stirrings in the soil.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
The campus was impressive for what happened within its walls: chest crackings, organ transplants, molecular imagings, genetic probes, and virtually any other medical service known in the advanced world.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
I said nothing, and Leper, having said so much, went on to say more, to speak above the wind and crackings as though his story would never be finished.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
The gallery was crowded; so crowded that, from time to time, there were ominous crackings, but the people in their excitement did not notice this.
From The Son of Monte-Cristo by Jules Lermina
There would come a vast sighing like a wave of sound, and a settling, a few crackings far off, and then silence.
From Stubble by George Looms
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