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[rift] / rɪft /




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The episode, which is titled “Burying the Hatchet” and aired in full Sunday, was a relatively chummy public reunion that dwelled little on the origins of their rift.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

Business experts say the departure suggests a rift with the family, particularly Noel Tata, the head of Tata Trusts since 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

A no-holds barred interview with US talkshow hostess Oprah Winfrey also deepened the rift.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

Former Real midfielder Sami Khedira said that Mourinho's rift with Casillas affected everyone.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

“We know it leads to something important in Rome, something that might heal the rift between the Romans and Greeks.”

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

Harry's 2023 autobiography, "Spare", lifted the veil on his royal rifts, describing William as his "arch-nemesis" and alleging he physically attacked him in a blazing 2019 row about Meghan.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

Harry and Meghan’s departure reflected both the larger struggle Black Brits and Americans face and the no-contact rifts that increasingly divide many families.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Differing opinions on the hotel, after Kebatu's offending in July 2025, led to rifts among neighbours who co-existed peacefully for years.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

The region contains faults, volcanic structures, rifts, scarps, and active subduction and spreading zones, many located at depths that make detailed sonar mapping extremely difficult.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

But I knew she did because, despite all the judgments and rifts and things we didn’t talk about, family was family.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

"In essence, we now have a front row seat to observe a critical rifting phase that had fundamentally shaped all rifted margins across the world," says co-author Folarin Kolawole, who is also with Lamont.

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2026

When Columbia rifted apart, the division happened within the area of the Purcell/Belt rocks.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

This region was rifted apart during the breakup of the supercontinent Columbia, after which sedimentation continued on the western margin of Laurentia with the deposition of the Windermere Group.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

The view of how mountains were built and seabeds stretched and rifted, and how continents oozed out of place and out of shape, was itself shifting, upthrusting, subducting.

From Time Magazine Archive

If I live till that hour no man shall harm you, but safely and in honour you shall come to your palace in Lacedaemon of the rifted hills.

From Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang

Ethiopia's Afar region remains an active rifting zone, shaped by tectonic forces and volcanic eruptions.

From Science Daily May 16, 2026

The team also uncovered signs of an earlier rifting episode that did not lead to a full continental split.

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2026

“There are a variety of older structures in the range, too, due to ancient rifting, that could be reactivated.”

From National Geographic Sep. 11, 2023

Other volcanoes can let their lava loose from rifting landscapes relatively quietly, while others unleash unexpected blasts of steam.

From New York Times Sep. 2, 2022

Except a change of wind or, as Procope observed, a supernatural rifting of the rock, nothing could bring deliverance now.

From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Jules Verne




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