Example Sentences

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Some industry observers said that it’s unlikely the AMPTP’s proposal will fracture the unity of WGA members.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023

It’s not yet clear whether the current unity will fracture if the war drags on for months.

From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2022

The “traditional plan” raises the possibility that the country’s largest mainline Protestant denomination will fracture over an issue about which it had long tolerated a measure of disagreement.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2019

Engineers and workers also have caught a break, Lundin says, in that the residual stresses in the rock are modest, reducing the risk that it will fracture or shift during excavation.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 21, 2017

Any current of cold air that strikes it will fracture it.

From The Story of Glass by Gray, C.P.