Jessica Henwick

I went snorkeling between tectonic plates in Iceland's Silfra fissure in the winter. You have to wear thermal layers and a wet suit and what's called a 'teddy-bear suit' so you don't die of hypothermia. My lips still went blue. That was an experience that I will carry with me for the rest of my life - so beautiful and so quiet.

English Actress

Rachel Joyce

Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

British Author

Rick Perlstein

America was founded on the fissure between slave states and free states, so these huge fault lines are just built into the American project. How we repress them, express them, deal with them, talk around them, think through them, don't think through them, is fascinating to me.

American Historian

Said Nursi

If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.

Turkish Theologian

Elfriede Jelinek

As is said about most writers, on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. On the other hand, the more I read, the more I felt this well-known fissure between me and the world.

American Playwright

Henry A. Wallace

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

American Vice President

Mike Barnicle

Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history. Its fissures are forever present and not that far beneath the surface of every day life. To deny that is to risk being labeled delusional.

American Journalist

Nicholas Kristof

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

Use 'fissure' to describe physical breaks, emphasizing they're narrow and elongated.

Physical rupture

'Fissure' can describe cracks caused by geological events, like earthquakes.

Geographical feature

'Fissure' implies a growing but still bridgeable gap in relationships.

Relationship issues

It's often used metaphorically to represent divisions in society or groups.

Social division

'Fissure' in medical contexts usually refers to painful cracks in skin or mucous membranes.

Medical terminology

In medicine, 'fissure' may point to specific body parts, like an anal fissure.

Specific regions

'Fissure' can refer to natural divisions or grooves in organs, such as the brain.

Anatomical structures

It's a clinical term, so use it primarily in medical or scientific discussions.

Technical medical term

 Well, one thing that you'll notice in the human brain that is different than other animals is we have these two very large lobes. We have the right brain and the left brain. And the key thing to notice in this figure here is that right down the center of the right brain and the left brain there's a large fissure that goes deep into the brain.

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 racial justice work we have to do what's happening with our economy um but in particular right now i think that mayors are facing you know this triple threat of covid of the economic dislocation and then ongoing social fissures most notably here in this country but around the world around

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 more filling our waters it is a truly incredible and beautiful place but it is also facing an oceanic crisis my community the municipality of valuing has long seen the problem people in my town are mostly farmers and fishers these fissures and their families depend

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 there each of these boxes needs to be precisely placed to hold fixtures in areas that won't be built for another seven months control line so make sure we make our layout right make sure that when it's said and done our fissures are straight

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 lightweight materials primarily from insurer Fisher's but the big problems are the industrial scale fissures that supply 90% of the quote seafood sea life to this country and around the world it's this large-scale extraction of

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 We find them in fissures of rock miles beneath our feet, in boiling waters of the ocean floor, in acidic waters of thermal springs, and in cloud droplets miles above our heads. These so-called extremophiles aren't rare.

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 beyond sheer scenic splendor deeper than the canyon itself is the mystery surrounding its formation this giant fissure once filled by mighty Lakes has been scoured by floods of

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 But I knew that epidemics emerge along the fissures of our society, reflecting not only biology, but more importantly patterns of marginalization, exclusion,

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 here in an umbrella thorn tree in Tanzania Africa some fissures lovebirds are looking for a nice hollow in which to nest and raise their young the love