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A rift earlier this year between the pope and Trump sparked global headlines.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

"The exposure-burial history that emerges from the model implies recycling of sediments previously deposited and buried in the rift valley... and then redeposited along the 'Ubeidiya paleo lake shoreline."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

A later rift stemmed from a dispute over a writing credit, according to Riskin’s daughter Victoria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Many American readers know him as the guy who traveled to the U.S. consulate in Chengdu in February 2012 to retrieve Bo’s police chief, who had sought refuge there following a rift with Bo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Lawrence’s interference in a private friendship only added to the growing rift between him and Robert and Kitty.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Lagarde set out to heal internal rifts among the ECB’s governing council that had festered under Draghi’s authoritative leadership.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Garbo and his colleagues were watching one of several major rifts that appeared likely to eventually cut across the entire ice tongue.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Chinese state media, external was quick to pick up on the "rifts", using the incident as an example to highlight the gaps in India's ability to enforce contracts.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

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

"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

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

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

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

"Eastern Africa has progressed further in the rifting process than previously thought."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 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

Glitter on the mountain heights you rifting specters bright.

From The Secret of the Creation by Howard D. Pollyen