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- noun Plural form of
crack . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
crack .
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Examples
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Recent discoveries of "deep life" in cracks in the Earth's crust indicate that some bacteria and many Archaea can live in cracks in hot rocks in which there is effectively no gaseous atmosphere at all, and in which liquid water is only intermittently available.
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The race car driver with the goofy grin cracks me up.
Thank you for responding, unfortunetly I would like you to stop sending your magazine to me. 2009
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Even the best college support systems are often inadequate to the challenge, and the number of students who slip through the cracks is very high.
Why so many bright kids fail to launch in college Valerie Strauss 2010
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The shot was answered with a series of cracks from the other side of the room, where a group of policemen had joined in the gunfight.
Charles, Pending 2010
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The race car driver with the goofy grin cracks me up.
Thank you for responding, unfortunetly I would like you to stop sending your magazine to me. 2009
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Bacteria have also been shown to be able to survive virtually hard vacuum, which raises the interesting possibility that the earliest living cells originated in cracks in rocks in space, and arrived on Earth via infalling bolides.
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The plaster, discolored by the steam of many wash-days, was crisscrossed with cracks from the big earthquake of the previous spring.
CHAPTER I 2010
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Thin cracks may let you see whether the ice is thick or not.
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Nucleation is the forming of bubble in cracks and ridges on the mentos.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Surely the ultimate Mentos in Diet Coke video 2006
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Lastly, just for fun, on a blog I recently discovered called Acephalous even the name cracks me up, a collaborative noir novel, blog-style.
Archive 2008-01-01 a. fortis 2008
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