crack into

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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Tough to crack into the top 100. — Patrick Snell, CNN Money, 21 Jan. 2026 This trio of stars has all cracked into the big leagues, but the Red Sox's system is still loaded. — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025 Even with the seats ripped up in rows and the bleachers bent and cracked into pieces along the lower part of the bowl as the dismantling and sell off gets underway, the place just emanates history. — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026 Each nation, according to the doc, wants to be the first to crack into extraterrestrial technology to reverse-engineer it for human use. — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 24 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for crack into

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“Crack into.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crack%20into. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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