rift
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Former Real midfielder Sami Khedira said that Mourinho's rift with Casillas affected everyone.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Buckingham believes making the forthcoming Apple TV documentary has not only helped mend the rift between he and Nicks, but also any remaining tensions with other Fleetwood Mac members.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Still, he thinks there is some shared responsibility for the rift.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The researchers found that rift flanks begin to flatten relatively quickly once tectonic movement ends.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
They settled on this complicity: they would not heal their rift — their mysterious rift — but bridge it, with manners.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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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 similarities between the modeled structures and the observed landscape strengthen the case that some of these rifts formed relatively recently.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 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
Some people briefed on the negotiations have played down these rifts and say Iran remains open to a deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
All about it the earth gaped, and from deep rifts and pits smoke and fumes leaped up.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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"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
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
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
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And two planks are rifted out of the boat.
From Commodore Junk by Fenn, George Manville
"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
As the crust becomes thinner, it also becomes weaker, making it easier for rifting to continue.
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 Verne, Jules
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