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Definition
a crack (or break) of a hard object — such as bone or rock; or the act of cracking or breaking
- These women would begin to see how fractured he was, they'd want to help him gain perspective on life and access the positive aspects of his own spirituality.p. 190.1
- Once he'd discovered that the cat family purred at the same frequency as the ultrasound used on bone fractures and skin lesions and were thus equipped with their own self-healing mechanism, he'd turned himself inside out in the attempt to install that feature.p. 156.6
- A skinny girl wearing nothing but high-heeled sandals and standing on her head; a blonde dangling from a hook in the ceiling in some kind of black-leather multiple-fracture truss, blindfolded but with her mouth sagging open in a hit-me-again drool; a big woman with huge breast implants and wet red lipstick, bending over and sticking out her pierced tongue.p. 271.2
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