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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of frack.

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Examples

  • Failures in cementing the steel casing at the uppermost portion of a well can send gas bubbling from fracks into nearby water wells.

    How America Can Escape the Energy Trap Mortimer Zuckerman 2011

  • Pouring brain-altering medicines directly into the bloodstream, fracks with who you are, right now.

    Pain 2008

  • As of 2010, more than one million hydraulic fracks have been made in the United States, and, according to testimony [pdf] before a House committee in 2005 by Victor Carrillo, chair of the Texas Railroad Commission, it's a process that's helped complete "over 90 percent of the oil and natural gas wells drilled in the United States."

    Bill Chameides: HBO Documentary: It's a Gas 2010

  • As of 2010, more than one million hydraulic fracks have been made in the United States, and, according to testimony [pdf] before a House committee in 2005 by Victor Carrillo, chair of the Texas Railroad Commission, it's a process that's helped complete "over 90 percent of the oil and natural gas wells drilled in the United States."

    Bill Chameides: HBO Documentary: It's a Gas 2010

  • With the fracks, geologists figure the Marcellus has more than 50 trillion cubic feet of gas, enough to meet all of U.S. needs for two years.

    Gas Industry Faces The Dangers Of Fracking 2009

  • I've been terribly let down by “Supernatural: Origins” because of its crappy artwork (why does everyone have eye patches?) and the way it fracks with canon.

    The Comic Book Conundrum | the TV addict 2007

  • Just like Sly Stallone shouldn't have gone there with the sixth Rocky movie, it's time for Hillary to quit, before she fracks things up for all of us.

    Tom Douglas: Open Letter To PA Democrats: Vote For The Party And The Nation 2008

  • Even the EPA says its findings need to be reviewed and reconsidered, and you better believe every company that drills or fracks any wells anywhere across America has a couple petroleum engineers peering through the EPA report looking for stumbling blocks and raising questions.

    Forbes.com: News Christopher Helman 2011

  • GasFrac said it has so far performed more than 1,000 propane fracks on 400 wells, it said.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • I tried to download a game I bought from Big Fish Games that I've previously been able to download ... it takes me the download window and then fracks out saying it can't connect to the server ...

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

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