fissure

Ultimately, it will come down to the amount of time that passes and the depth of the fissure between you and your son and daughter-in-law.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

The fossil remains were recovered from fissure deposits located on both sides of the Bristol Channel in southern Wales and southwest England.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026

Though most of the film is spent building up to this fissure, “Oh. What. Fun.” stumbles when Claire and her family separate.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

A deep chasm opened up under her, a fissure cut into the cliffs by the sea.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

Celebrated Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda specializes in gentle, sentimental films about the tiny fissures that form along the foundation of families.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Colin Woodard, director of the Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University, divides the US into a number of distinct identities, connected to those early fissures:

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

As Hass delicately puts it, “The open divergences between Washington and its partners over the war’s legitimacy, execution, and fallout have exposed fissures that risk metastasizing to other issue areas over time.”

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

Rohinton Mistry’s novel explores how all the fissures within this family are deepened by this development.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Day after day the pitiless sun blazed down, scorching whatever still struggled to grow and baking the earth hard until at last it split and great irregular fissures gaped in the land.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

A nearby building had deep fissured in its façade.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

This is “the scar that history has given us,” Boucheron continues, and ever since “we have been born already fissured, disturbed, uneasy.”

From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2026

“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.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025

Neighborhoods near the golf course are under a city-issued evacuation warning, with the fissured land moving about 9 to 12 inches a week and houses cracking and sliding off their foundations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2024

Harrenhal's gatehouse, itself as large as Winterfell's Great Keep, was as scarred as it was massive, its stones fissured and discolored.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Workplace fissuring reduces wages by blocking workers from access to higher wages, career ladders, and workplace protections such as union rights with the lead firm.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2020

But this filmmaker’s penchants for relaxed jungle odysseys, fissuring narratives and unexpected appearances by talking monkeys hardly begin there.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2016

When rifting of Pangea started at approximately 200 Ma, the fissuring was along a different line from the line of the earlier collision.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

The snow that had come down from the avalanches was fissuring, caused by an air pocket below.

From Time ● Jul. 9, 2012

As a rule the nearer to the base, the greater was the amount of fissuring observed.

From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins