rupture
Example Sentences
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Aside from medical ailments, you may sense that long-ago unresolved issues — ruptured relationships, grievous losses, life-altering decisions — undermine your well-being in subtle but significant ways.
From MarketWatch
Véra has a disability—she cannot speak, likely due to a ruptured aneurysm she suffered at the age of 6.
In many cases, tsunamis take at least an hour to reach land after an earthquake, depending on where the rupture occurs.
From Science Daily
Their analysis suggested the earthquake rupture extended farther south than previously thought and stretched about 400 kilometers -- significantly longer than the 300 kilometers estimated by other models.
From Science Daily
To both father and son, technological revolution is less a rupture than a recurrence.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
