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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Show more Dallas only needs 4 inches to crack into its top 10 snowiest days on record. NBC News, 7 Jan. 2025 Intel’s stock price and market share had collapsed as the artificial intelligence wave boosted chipmaker Nvidia while Intel struggled to crack into the business. Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 20 Dec. 2024

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“Crack into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crack%20into. Accessed 8 Mar. 2025.

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