crack
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Scotland had a crack at 13 All Blacks for a brief minute but couldn't break them despite going painfully close through Jones.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
It also reports that the Church of England will raise "concerns" with MPs and peers scrutinising draft legislation to crack down on conversion practices, as part of the paper's campaign to scrap the bill.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Williams and Eleanor—who would define comic relief if Helen and Sam didn’t crack us up with regularity—start inching toward each other in a romantic way, the awkwardness genuine, and touching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
It is taboo in China to crack jokes about Mao, who died in 1976 and whose drastic policies are blamed by historians for mass starvation and millions of deaths.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
My eyes crack open, and it is night.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
PitchBook reported this morning that cracks are beginning to show for AI startup investments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Once applied, the gel forms a thin but durable coating that penetrates the tooth's surface and fills microscopic cracks and gaps.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
“Interest rates get in the cracks, interest rates affect directly or indirectly, almost everything,” Warsh said Wednesday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
A mother has said she feels her son has been "abandoned and is falling through cracks in the system" because of a lack of support for young adults with learning difficulties.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The knocking comes again, louder, this time with a whisper through the cracks.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
That latter bit is certainly true for filmmaker Taika Waititi, whose otherwise tacky-yet-progressive veneer cracked last weekend when he took to Instagram to condemn the poor reviews of his latest film, “Klara and the Sun.”
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
He said he was "delighted" that the expert team at Amgueddfa Cymru and Cardiff University cracked the padlock code after he spent years trying to solve the mystery himself.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
After retailers cracked down on in-store thefts, thieves moved online, according to law-enforcement and industry officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Inside the Science Center, Endeavour’s payload bay doors are cracked wide open, like a car’s lifted hood — but they were built for space, not Earth’s gravity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
A large branch hit the windshield and cracked it.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
Their work remixes the thrill of early internet exploration into colorful abstraction, cracking open an esoteric feeling to analyze its contents and origin — to varying effect.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
It is people like her the Australian government says it is trying to protect with a new suite of laws cracking down on big tech, which were introduced to parliament this week.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
A child protection bill was introduced in 2021 amending multiple statutes with the stated aim of cracking down on paedophilia.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
As I wrote last week, China’s growth model is cracking under the weight of weak demand and mounting debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
It would be there, with the tar on the canvas drying and cracking, until great holes appeared and the currach wasted away.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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