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rift::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | breach, break, falling out, rupture, severance |
| Type of | separation, detachment, breakup |
| Has types | schism |
Examples of rift
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The rift widens between free-trade farm states and pro-tariff industrial states.
From the businessweek.com
It was, perversely, their joint opposition to Sarah Palin that healed this rift.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
Ball's rift with the Putnam GOP establishment has pushed together former rivals.
From the lohud.com
Sensing the rift, House Republicans have sought to play the two off one another.
From the time.com
Still, the governor's switch led to speculation about a rift in the state party.
From the washingtontimes.com
The incident had threatened to open a diplomatic rift between China and America.
From the economist.com
Subsequent efforts to heal the rift between the two sides have proved fruitless.
From the cnn.com
Handle this as gracefully as possible unless you want to create a permanent rift.
From the dispatch.com
The abortion issue has already sparked a rift between Obama and his adopted city.
From the washingtonpost.com
- A gap between cloud masses; "the sun shone through a rift in the clouds"
- A narrow fissure in rock
- Rupture: a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
- In geology, a rift or chasm is a place where the Earth's crust and lithosphere are being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.
- Rift is the sixth studio album by rock band Phish. It is the band's second concept album, whose narrator is dreaming about the rift in his relationship with his girlfriend. ...
- The Rift is a novel by author Walter Jon Williams. Published in 1999, it is a 726 page (hardbound) epic concerning the effects of a massive earthquake in Missouri, Mississippi, and Louisiana. ...
- The Cardiff Rift is a fictional wormhole in the science fiction television series Doctor Who and Torchwood, one end of which is located in Cardiff Bay, Wales. ...
- (Rifts (roleplaying game)) Rifts is a multi-genre role-playing game created by Kevin Siembieda in 1990 and published continuously by Palladium Books since then. ...
- A chasm or fissure; A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through; To form a rift
