fracture
Example Sentences
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"Bones are overly smooth, spines unnaturally straight, lungs overly symmetrical, blood vessel patterns excessively uniform, and fractures appear unusually clean and consistent, often limited to one side of the bone."
From Science Daily
Most team owners don’t think so, arguing that the disparity in revenues between big-market franchises and their smaller counterparts has become unsustainable, resulting in a fractured competitive landscape.
Even knowing they must cooperate with the very people they’re competing against, as alliances form and fracture, each day grows more fraught.
From Los Angeles Times
The media landscape has fractured — back then newspapers set the political agenda, fewer than half of voters were online and streaming was something mostly done by water.
From Los Angeles Times
Lyla had already spent more than a year dealing with pain that was initially thought to be a sprain or small fracture.
From BBC
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