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  • By the way, I don't think this will result in anything aproaching a long-term rift.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • Then, on the other side, we have somebody writing in to let us know about the Hillary Clinton so-called rift.

    CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2008 2008

  • They were no less than ten in number; and, understanding all the advantages of their bloody occupation, they had posted themselves at a spot where the water dashed among rocks and over shallows, in a way to form a rapid which, in the language of the country, is called a rift.

    Pathfinder; or, the inland sea James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Spanish is somewhat different, for obvious reasons, but they often seem riven by the Peninsular vs. Latin American rift.

    Mr. Verb 2009

  • They're the biggest reason there's been all this so-called "rift."

    Hillary: "Were You In This Campaign Just For Me?" 2009

  • The only thing nasty about this primary is the coverage of it, which has over-hyped every back-and-forth charge, and in particular over-hyped this so-called "rift."

    Hullabaloo 2008

  • With the recoil of the gun the hunter had lost his balance on the slippery ice, and at the same moment that his shot struck the chamois, he was hurled into the "rift."

    Harper's Young People, December 2, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

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