as in crevices
an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure
lava flows up through a fissure in the earth's crust
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Recent Examples of fissures
Over eons, water dissolved the calcium carbonate, etching deep fissures and caverns into the stone.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Instead of treating China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia as an inexorable bloc, the United States and its allies should work to loosen their ties by exploiting the fissures that the war in Ukraine has concealed.
—Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2025
The return to fighting could also worsen deep internal fissures inside Israel over the fate of the remaining hostages.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
For hot water to circulate and produce electricity when brought to the surface, an EGS’s basic function is to inject fluid deep below to make new fissures in rock formations.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2025
Since Reconstruction, the state had been run by Democrats, though intraparty fissures grew throughout the sixties and seventies.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Pandemic aid, which papered over the city’s fiscal fissures these past few years, is gone now.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025
But already there were fissures.
—Catherine Porter, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Some researchers believe that the fissures could be a source of subsurface ice, or liquid water which brings up further questions on habitability.
—Sade Agard, Interesting Engineering, 16 Feb. 2025
Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Instead of treating China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia as an inexorable bloc, the United States and its allies should work to loosen their ties by exploiting the fissures that the war in Ukraine has concealed.
—Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2025
The return to fighting could also worsen deep internal fissures inside Israel over the fate of the remaining hostages.
—Wafaa Shurafa, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
For hot water to circulate and produce electricity when brought to the surface, an EGS’s basic function is to inject fluid deep below to make new fissures in rock formations.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 12 Mar. 2025
Since Reconstruction, the state had been run by Democrats, though intraparty fissures grew throughout the sixties and seventies.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
Pandemic aid, which papered over the city’s fiscal fissures these past few years, is gone now.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025
But already there were fissures.
—Catherine Porter, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
Some researchers believe that the fissures could be a source of subsurface ice, or liquid water which brings up further questions on habitability.
—Sade Agard, Interesting Engineering, 16 Feb. 2025
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“Fissures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fissures. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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