cracked

Example Sentences

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Truly cracked engineers didn’t dirty their hands with client-facing work.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

Formosa had been at the Denver meeting, and by October Big Pipes still hadn’t cracked the mystery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

It’s a cracked mirror, with each fragment revealing a different, distorted image of the human psyche — and it’s really funny, too.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

After the first uncrewed test flight, Artemis I, engineers found that chunks of the heat shield's coating had cracked and broken away during a two‑stage "skip" re‑entry manoeuvre.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

And sure enough there were a few old tire piles rotting slowly in its cracked concrete front yard.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste