crack open
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One gets the sense that, were you to crack open one of the tomes, a mystery would come falling out from between its pages.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
While some primates use stone tools to access food, for instance to crack open nuts, accumulative stone throwing is a rare example of stone tool use in a social context.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
In between are Egyptian vultures, which use rocks to crack open ostrich eggs—genuine tool use—but when presented with rocks and chicken eggs simply cannot figure out what to do, suggesting a rather circumscribed “intelligence.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Even with videogame “luck mechanics,” where the divide is smaller, crypto holders crack open loot boxes at a greater clip.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025
I crack open David Copperfield and begin to read Chapter One, “I Am Born.”
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
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