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as in to choke
to yield to mental or emotional stress
after hours of tough questioning the suspect finally cracked and blurted out a confession
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as in to decipher
to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language
the United States military used the Navajo language as a code during World War II, and the enemy never cracked it
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as in to knock
to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner
cracked the bow of the ship with a champagne bottle
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as in to solve
to find an answer for through reasoning
I've been mulling this riddle, but I just can't crack it
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as in to bother
to cause to go insane or as if insane
cracked by years in solitary confinement, the prisoner could only maunder incoherently
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as in fissure
an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure
a pebble struck the car's windshield and left a spidery crack in it
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as in blow
a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument
a disciplinary crack on the hand with a ruler was once common in schoolrooms
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as in bang
a loud explosive sound
the tree fell with a sharp crack
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as in joke
something said or done to cause laughter
a whispered crack made the whole back row start laughing
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as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
that conspiracy theorist has been labeled a crack by the ballistics experts
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as in skilled
having or showing exceptional knowledge, experience, or skill in a field of endeavor
known as one of the college's crack tennis players
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Recent Examples of crack
Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
However, Slotkin and Michigan have proved a tough nut to crack.
—Al Weaver, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2024
Niall Stanage, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
If nothing else, the sheer reach of the two home markets should have given Fox its first crack at topping the 20 million viewer mark since Game 7 of the 2019 Astros-Nationals shootout scared up 23.01 million fans.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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There are also opportunities here to avoid the reputational harm that comes from breaches and of course to avoid the cost of remediation procedures if software systems do end up cracking.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
However, Slotkin and Michigan have proved a tough nut to crack.
—Al Weaver, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2024
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But the Trump campaign has spent two days enmeshed in a controversy of its own making, after a comedian at his big rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday made a racist crack about Puerto Rico.
—Niall Stanage, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2024
If nothing else, the sheer reach of the two home markets should have given Fox its first crack at topping the 20 million viewer mark since Game 7 of the 2019 Astros-Nationals shootout scared up 23.01 million fans.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crack
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Shares have been especially volatile around the election, with the stock closing down nearly 23% Thursday before popping back up 18% in Friday afternoon trading.Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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The few longer waits that did pop up were largely within the one hour timeframe officials had predicted.Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 6 Nov. 2024
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Armed with that information, off-roading is a lot less likely to be marred by choking, toxic smoke that comes along with dangerous levels of combustion if users know which areas to avoid.Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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He is accused of fatally choking 30-year-old Jordan Neely on a New York City subway in 2023.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Unlike cuneiform, only about half of proto cuneiform symbols have been deciphered so far.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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Groups are trying to decipher what the ruling means for other proposals to connect power-hungry data centers with America's single largest source of zero-emissions 24/7 electricity.Alan Neuhauser, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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Toyota’s Japanese manufacturing plants crank out about 13,500 new vehicles every day—but last year, 14 of them were knocked offline for 24 hours by a single software glitch.Chris Turlica, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Donald Trump made his closing pitch to supporters while knocking several of his opponents in his last rally of the presidential election on Monday night.Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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Apparently, Comedy Central tried to solve its issue by going to Mulaney, not once but twice.Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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Asked if South Carolina should expand Medicaid, Simmer said the challenges South Carolina and other states confront are worsened by health care provider shortages and structural inequities too large and complicated for Medicaid expansion alone to solve.Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Does Miss Manners have a suggestion for a polite way of indicating that, since they couldn’t be bothered to acknowledge the first gift, subsequent gifts should not be solicited?Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Each one of them is making some informed assumptions about who will bother to cast a ballot.Philip Elliott, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
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But then life did what life does, and all that youthful bravado leaked out through the lines in his face like steam through fissures in geothermal rock.Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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These fissures in platforms have happened across the board.Makena Kelly, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
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And in what many consider the final blow to her mayoral career, Thao’s home was raided by FBI agents in July.Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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In a game of dueling masterpieces from Nikola Jokic and Kyrie Irving, neither of them dealt the decisive blow.Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
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“Crack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crack. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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