cracking

Telltale signs of water damage include discolored wall panels, black mold, cracking plaster or peeling paint, just to name a few.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

"But the good news is that we've got our headliners and we're cracking on, and we just can't wait to get back."

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

China has been cracking down on a practice known as "Singapore-washing," which is when companies leave the country to take advantage of looser regulations, global customers or funding opportunities.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Police say they are working on cracking the case.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Tears were sliding down her face like a cracking dam doing its best to hold an overflowing lake.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

I said nothing, and Leper, having said so much, went on to say more, to speak above the wind and crackings as though his story would never be finished.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

The campus was impressive for what happened within its walls: chest crackings, organ transplants, molecular imagings, genetic probes, and virtually any other medical service known in the advanced world.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

All the Arctic peoples had been thrown into panic, and so had the animals, not only by the fog and the magnetic variations but by unseasonal crackings of ice and stirrings in the soil.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

The rollers operate in sets, and successive crackings are obtained by passing and repassing, if necessary, the grain through these rollers, set at different distances apart.

From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle

In others, the joints, although stiff, can be moved but exhibit pronounced crackings.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson