fracture

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They tend to form gradually as confidence begins to fracture, often invisibly at first.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

This earthquake was triggered by a strike-slip fault, where two large sections of the Earth's crust move horizontally past each other along a vertical fracture.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

The elite, such as it is, starts to fracture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Vonn suffered a complex tibia fracture and other major damage.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

But we passed under one dead tree, leafless but still standing, and I looked up through its branches, which intersected to fracture the cloudless blue sky into all kinds of irregular polygons.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green