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fissure

noun as in gap

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“Not every slave worked directly for their owner—just like in today’s complex fissured workplace, where not every employee is working directly for the employer with whom they signed an employment contract.”

Perhaps the fissure should bring to mind Nordic depression, or familial misadventures in communication.

There’s a crack in it that seems to represent the fissures in the family, the flaws in their facade.

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The government majority approved the amendment on Wednesday, causing fissures among even the ruling party.

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Asked about the fissure, Cortez Masto responded evenly and with diplomacy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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