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[rift] / rɪft /




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Former Real midfielder Sami Khedira said that Mourinho's rift with Casillas affected everyone.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

Buckingham believes making the forthcoming Apple TV documentary has not only helped mend the rift between he and Nicks, but also any remaining tensions with other Fleetwood Mac members.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Still, he thinks there is some shared responsibility for the rift.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

The researchers found that rift flanks begin to flatten relatively quickly once tectonic movement ends.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

They settled on this complicity: they would not heal their rift — their mysterious rift — but bridge it, with manners.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

Differing opinions on the hotel, after Kebatu's offending in July 2025, led to rifts among neighbours who co-existed peacefully for years.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

The similarities between the modeled structures and the observed landscape strengthen the case that some of these rifts formed relatively recently.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

While rescue workers have exhausted themselves in cold water, the odyssey has also featured heated rifts between veterinarians and self-proclaimed "whale-whisperers", fundraising scams and esoteric attempts to heal the whale through chanting.

From Barron's Apr. 23, 2026

Some people briefed on the negotiations have played down these rifts and say Iran remains open to a deal.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 19, 2026

All about it the earth gaped, and from deep rifts and pits smoke and fumes leaped up.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

"In essence, we now have a front row seat to observe a critical rifting phase that had fundamentally shaped all rifted margins across the world," says co-author Folarin Kolawole, who is also with Lamont.

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2026

Divergent boundaries form where existing plates are rifted apart, and it is hypothesized that this is caused by a series of mantle plumes.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

This region was rifted apart during the breakup of the supercontinent Columbia, after which sedimentation continued on the western margin of Laurentia with the deposition of the Windermere Group.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

The view of how mountains were built and seabeds stretched and rifted, and how continents oozed out of place and out of shape, was itself shifting, upthrusting, subducting.

From Time Magazine Archive

And two planks are rifted out of the boat.

From Commodore Junk by Fenn, George Manville

"In essence, we now have a front row seat to observe a critical rifting phase that had fundamentally shaped all rifted margins across the world," says co-author Folarin Kolawole, who is also with Lamont.

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2026

As the crust becomes thinner, it also becomes weaker, making it easier for rifting to continue.

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2026

“There are a variety of older structures in the range, too, due to ancient rifting, that could be reactivated.”

From National Geographic Sep. 11, 2023

Other volcanoes can let their lava loose from rifting landscapes relatively quietly, while others unleash unexpected blasts of steam.

From New York Times Sep. 2, 2022

Except a change of wind or, as Procope observed, a supernatural rifting of the rock, nothing could bring deliverance now.

From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Verne, Jules




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