Peter Maurer

The mess in the world is a strong driver because, at the end of the day, it's the increasing unacceptability of the divergences and rifts in the world economically, socially, politically, and culturally which lead everybody to say, 'We have to do something.

Swiss Activist

Ramez Naam

I've tried Oculus Rift; I've played with the Steam VR rig. Both are mind-blowing. In a traditional video game setting, in a first-person shooter, you can see a tower in the distance. You can walk up to that tower and use your controller to look up.

American Writer

Alex Honnold

You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.

American Athlete

Lili Reinhart

There's a definite rift in 'Riverdale.' There's a civil war between the Southside and the Northside. And Jughead being on the Southside and Betty's on the Northside, it becomes a bit of a 'Romeo and Juliet' situation.

American Actress

Ernest Shackleton

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

Irish Explorer

Michael Steele

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

American Politician

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

American Clergyman

Kate Christensen

If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.

American Novelist

Grandmaster Flash

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.

American Musician

Josh Gordon

I'm aware of the rift in the locker room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.

Use 'rift' to describe serious disagreements that harm relationships.

Relationship Context

'Rift' can indicate emotional or figurative separation not seen but felt.

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In politics, 'rift' often refers to a significant ideological disagreement.

Political Disagreements

'Rift' can be used to describe fundamental disagreements in scholarly discussions.

Academic Debates

'Rift' may indicate a division within cultures or communities.

Cultural Divisions

Sometimes 'rift' is used metaphorically to represent a brief opportunity or insight.

Metaphorical Use

'Rift' can imply something temporary, like a gap in clouds that will close.

Transitory Nature

'Rift' in geology describes areas where the Earth's crust is pulling apart.

Geological Formation

In geology, a 'rift' can be an indication of future geographical changes.

Indicator of Change

 with the ruling government, illustrating the crisis of trust that was caused by a trade deal dispute. And to heal this rift and communicate better with everyday citizens, the administration reached out to the people who supported the occupiers, for example, the g0v community, which has been seeking to improve government transparency

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 Rift Valley and if you have a bad day all you have to do is look to the east and realize oh wait you know I'm standing a few thousand meters above this huge pastoral expanse with cliffs right next to me near a herd of you know hundreds of monkeys life isn't so bad in fact it's really interesting

Surrounded By Monkeys:...

 the continents are moving about as fast as our fingernails grow and as they continue to split the rift between them otherwise known as the Atlantic Ocean will get even wider and all this drama is leaving behind a major scar an underwater valley called the mid-atlantic ridge which tears more and

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 And I understood that could also represent the rift between one generation and the next, between people like me and my father's generation, but there's no tradition in Caribbean life of memoirs or biographies. It was a tradition that you didn't chat about your business in public.

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 animals brought in so for people who grew up in africa around giraffes these animals are really important part of their identity you know i had seen them in the wild i really loved them when i was you know as a kid also in the western rift valley the local pakote in gemps

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 it rifts along what's now the west coast of North America to create the Panthalassa Ocean. You're seeing an ancestral continent called Laurentia, which grows over the next few hundred million years as island chains collide with it and add land mass.

How North America got...

 technology we're using now is actually very helpful recording in this scale big scale features this is but digital mapping not just monochrome but full-color let me drag you to Egypt this is one of our studies we're working on the rift

Grave Secrets of...

 where you find the liquid water, you generally find life. From life in extreme environments, like hydrothermal vents, hot springs in the rift valleys, to Antarctica, from life in extreme environments, to life of extreme lifestyles.

Life Beyond Earth, Part...

 bulge in the Earth's mantle which lifts the rift that runs across the center of Iceland out of the water to create an island but that rift is not just limited to Iceland like a crack in a wall it spreads across the world to form a

Earth-Building Wounds PIPE...

 Now if this rift, which is already so great in many parts of the world, between the lack of infrastructure and the spread of technology, isn't somehow bridged, there will be ruptures between the digital and the real.

Rift

A gap or split between two things.

Intellectual split between people or groups.

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A visible split in the cloud cover, allowing the clear sky to be seen.

A long narrow zone of continental splitting where tectonic plates are drifting apart.

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