crack into
phrasal verb
cracked into; cracking to; cracks into
informal
: to enter or get started in (something, such as a profession)
It's not easy to crack into professional football.
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Three Days of the Condor (1975) If the Kennedy assassination opened up cracks of distrust in the foundation of American life, Watergate turned those cracks into fissures.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2020
Eggs just collected from the coop are being cracked into glass bowls on their way to becoming breakfast.
—Eliza Berman, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
Jim was the first of the trio to crack into the $100 billion club when his fortune leapt to $101 billion in the second week of September.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2024
The man was riding home from dinner with his wife and two young children when bullets cracked into the car.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
Its narrative proves less insightful, however: too wary to crack into its protagonist’s troubled psyche, softening the film’s worthwhile political anxieties into sympathetic messaging that seems ho-hum and predetermined.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
Over time, rainwater had worked its way into tiny fissures, and the wind followed, gradually widening the fissures into cracks and the cracks into chasms.
—Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
Elaine Morales told The Los Angeles Times, which broke news of the crime, that thieves were able to breach the money storage facility in the suburban Sylmar neighborhood and then crack into the safe containing the cash.
—Sean Murphy, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
David Hammons’s tarp paintings, John Chamberlain’s car sculptures, and pictures of his own iPhone, its screen cracked into a million tiny pieces, are arrayed in orderly rows.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2024
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2020
Eggs just collected from the coop are being cracked into glass bowls on their way to becoming breakfast.
—Eliza Berman, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
Jim was the first of the trio to crack into the $100 billion club when his fortune leapt to $101 billion in the second week of September.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2024
The man was riding home from dinner with his wife and two young children when bullets cracked into the car.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024
Its narrative proves less insightful, however: too wary to crack into its protagonist’s troubled psyche, softening the film’s worthwhile political anxieties into sympathetic messaging that seems ho-hum and predetermined.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
Over time, rainwater had worked its way into tiny fissures, and the wind followed, gradually widening the fissures into cracks and the cracks into chasms.
—Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
Elaine Morales told The Los Angeles Times, which broke news of the crime, that thieves were able to breach the money storage facility in the suburban Sylmar neighborhood and then crack into the safe containing the cash.
—Sean Murphy, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
David Hammons’s tarp paintings, John Chamberlain’s car sculptures, and pictures of his own iPhone, its screen cracked into a million tiny pieces, are arrayed in orderly rows.
—Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2024
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