cleft
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Habermas was born with a cleft palate that required repeated operations as a child, an experience he later said helped shape his thinking about language and communication.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
She’s desperate to find a refuge for herself, “a cleft in the rock of the world” that she could hide in, as she tells him after her secrets have been exposed.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2025
He had the darkest eyelashes I’ve ever seen, short and tidy fingernails, and a cleft chin that could fit a Canadian loonie.
From Slate • Dec. 17, 2024
“It certainly happened to me,” said Schimberg, who has a cleft palate.
From Salon • Sep. 21, 2024
He peered ahead into the dark cleft, and left and right up the great, cavern-pocked, boulder-tumbled slopes where trees crouched with their roots half in air.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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