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The U.S. threats, which haven’t been previously reported, marked the biggest rift in years in a relationship that has underpinned security arrangements in the Gulf for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Head coach Brendon McCullum said he remains "good friends" with England captain Ben Stokes and the pair have "no idea" why rumours of a rift have emerged.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Worst case for the Arab monarchies would be if their competition while navigating the U.S.-Iran standoff prompts a new Gulf rift, which could spill beyond the Middle East, Worby said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

Rubio, a devout Catholic, sought to play down the rift ahead of the private audience, which will be followed by talks with Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

Personally, Tendai didn’t care if a gang of robocycles thundered through the opening, but the guards had apparently worked up enough courage to close the rift in their wall.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

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

While rescue workers have exhausted themselves in cold water, the odyssey has also featured heated rifts between veterinarians and self-proclaimed "whale-whisperers", fundraising scams and esoteric attempts to heal the whale through chanting.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

Azizi dismissed any impressions of rifts within the regime.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

And there were rifts as well as riffs: For a time Mr. Jagger and Mr. Richards stopped seeing eye to eye on what worked and what didn’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Each concussion threw him, staggering, and he watched in sick astonishment as the cracks grew to gaping rifts wide enough to swallow a man.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

"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

Divergent boundaries form where existing plates are rifted apart, and it is hypothesized that this is caused by a series of mantle plumes.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Heezen thinks that the Atlantic Ocean is a very old crack that has rifted over and over and grown 3,000 miles wide.

From Time Magazine Archive

All along the grim rifted coast the dread marks of fire, and flood, and desolation were visible.

From The Land of Thor by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)

As this separation occurs, a process called rifting stretches the crust sideways.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

These pathways opened during a period of tectonic stretching and rifting that eventually split Rodinia apart.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 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 Verne, Jules