John Seabrook

Like Honeycrisp, SweeTango has much larger cells than other apples, and when you bite into it, the cells shatter rather than cleaving along the cell walls, as is the case with most popular apples. The bursting of the cells fills your mouth with juice. Chunks of SweeTango snap off in your mouth with a loud cracking sound.

American Journalist

Bill Buford

When I was at Babbo, I was covered in scars and scabs and burned bits - melted hair, ribbed burns I got reaching across the top of a hot skillet... I sliced off the tip of my finger. I cleaved my forehead - a deep, ugly wound. Luckily, it regenerated.

American Author

Alice Dreger

Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair.

American Scientist

Lydia Millet

I have a king bed, one of those memory-foam mattresses that doesn't jiggle as you get in or out. Even if you cleaved it down the middle with a pickax, the thing wouldn't tremble. It's practically earthquake-proof.

American Novelist

George Saunders

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

American Writer

Mike Pence

Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. It was not our idea; it was God's idea.

American Vice President

Confucius

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Chinese Philosopher

George Eliot

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

British Author

Anne Lamott

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

Diane Lane

Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to.

American Actress

Cleave as a verb usually describes a forceful, physical splitting action.

Physical Action

When cleaving, the split often follows a natural or existing line or grain, like with wood or meat.

Natural Line

Cleaving something can be violent or require great effort, not gentle or peaceful.

Not Peaceful

An emotional cleave defines a very strong attachment to a cause, idea, or person.

Emotional Bond

To cleave to something suggests maintaining support or belief despite challenges.

Persistence

Cleaving often implies a lasting commitment, like marriage or lifelong principles.

Lifetime Commitment

In science, cleave refers to a specific reaction where large molecules are broken down.

Biochemical Process

Usually, biological cleaving requires an enzyme or chemical to facilitate the process.

Requires Enzyme

In biochemistry, the term identifies specific sites or bonds where cleavage occurs.

Speaks Specificity

 where this technology was used to support the provision of cleft lip and palate surgery to children, children from poor backgrounds who didn't have access to health insurance. And in this town, there was a hospital with one surgeon working hard to provide this care, Dr. Soraya. Now, Dr. Soraya was struggling under the sheer demand

How augmented reality...

 get into your question now but it looks like it's mass there's a split you see that between its trunk and its mouth almost like it's got a cleft palate that's really interesting I've never seen that in my life before it's not its mouth its mouth is lowered down by the looks of things and just now there was a

Introducing a New Baby...

 And where it's landing to bring the twigs to the cliff, its feathers brushes the rock -- and it had cut the rock six to eight inches in. There was a cleft in the rock by the brushing of the feathers of generations of the birds. So he said, "All right. I get the point." He went back.

Robert Thurman:...

 Now I might say the noise problem could also occur on the basis of information provided in the world from the ears. If any -- those of you who are older in the audience know that when I was a child we understood that a child born with a cleft palate

Michael Merzenich:...

 story her profiles reveal the existence of complex geography of crevices metallic but perhaps most startling was the emergence of a long v-shaped cleft that ran through each of her profiles these so-called risk valleys offered support

How One Brilliant Woman...

 gone in the modern world naturalism detail you can get horns antlers even if you look close cloven hooves and it raises a question what changed what and what changed is something you might not have expected in an art which is math

Folding way-new origami...

 This, too, is origami, and this shows where we've gone in the modern world. Naturalism. Detail. You can get horns, antlers -- even, if you look close, cloven hooves. And it raises a what changed?

The math and magic of...

 perfectly round ceramic bowl in another place we came upon this tapir jaw left in the cleft of a tree a kind of totem perhaps we weren't sure but these are the signs that make up the lifeblood of

The Unconquered:...

 to offer plastic surgery to those who need it. Children with cleft palates get it, and they document their story. This is wonderful. I am not that caring. I talk about myself.

Mena Trott: How blogs...

 with fur big ears and cloven hooves love comes in the door in many ways quite unexpectedly love came into our life late one chris june evening in the most improbable

Cleave

To split or divide something, especially along a natural line or flat surface.

Often appears as...

To strongly attach oneself emotionally to something or someone.

Often appears as...

In biochemistry, to break down a compound into smaller parts.

Often appears as...

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