fracture
Example Sentences
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Further analysis revealed signs of childhood stress, healed fractures, and diseases such as tuberculosis.
From BBC
The slope is steep and underlain by weak, heavily fractured bedrock, making it prone to failure.
From Science Daily
In two additional papers published in Airbursts and Cratering Impacts, the researchers argue that airbursts can generate a wider range of fracture patterns.
From Science Daily
This included during the onset of the pandemic, an erratically unfolding and socially fracturing catastrophe about which, naturally, Erikson had lots to say.
This result contrasts sharply with many recent earthquakes where surface motion was reduced because energy was spread across networks of small fractures rather than concentrated on a single fault.
From Science Daily
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