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as in backs
a vulnerable point
before the tournament she studied tapes of her chief rival, looking for the chink in her game
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as in fissures
an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure
plugged the chinks in the walls with mortar
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Recent Examples of chinks
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
15 May 2026
Does the bazaar allow for chinks in the kind of class barriers that would usually exist?
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Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
23 Nov. 2025
But after the break, the Americans started to find some chinks in the English armour.
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Peter Carline,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
The result is a fiery and impassioned offering that finds the veteran fully engaged and intent on proving no chinks have been left in his armor despite his tenuous back-and-forth with his Compton counterpart.
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Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
15 May 2026
Does the bazaar allow for chinks in the kind of class barriers that would usually exist?
—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
23 Nov. 2025
But after the break, the Americans started to find some chinks in the English armour.
—
Peter Carline,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chinks
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After the €60million departure of Marc Cucurella to Real Madrid, Jorrel Hato is Chelsea’s only senior left-sided option in defence, with Reece James and Malo Gusto as right-backs.
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But unlike fruit flies, these pests have black eyes (not red), distinctive humped backs, and heavier, thicker-veined wings.
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So, too, does the idea that a soccer coach could close fissures that even the well-meaning among career politicians have failed to seal.
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The group is particularly interested in suspending, fracturing, and reconstructing time through which othered bodies and identities pass, and in exploring the attendant emerging fissures.
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As the bullet weight clinks and clacks along the bottom, bass will key in on your rig and follow it.
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Each robot, remotely operated, clinks glasses and gestures in unison, embodying the camaraderie and hope of the musical’s revolutionaries.
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The most caustic people in the world often have the softest underbellies — at least if Alden Ehrenreich is playing them.
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Cashmere is expensive because these goats produce a limited amount of this precious fiber, found on their underbellies, and the process of obtaining the wool is labor-intensive.
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From clever watermelon slicers to brushes designed to slide into tight crevices, shop more surprisingly useful gadgets below.
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In it, pieces of raw fish are put in the cracks, crevices, and folds of the skin of Zach Holmes, another of the new cast members, who is a large man.
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In fact, the only thing that rings true is how the Three Lions end up exiting the tournament.
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But don’t tell that to winger Timothy Weah, who could be in line for his first start of the tournament as Pochettino rings the changes to keep his players fresh for the round of 32.
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Once Woll’s bratty vamp was through draining jugulars, the actress found a second signature role as Karen Page on Marvel’s Daredevil (2015–2018).
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His close ties to Trump may keep the American president at the table, but are unlikely to mend the rifts.
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These are old rifts within Hispanic communities that the figure of Gálvez alone, and our presence at the time of independence, cannot reconcile.
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“Chinks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chinks. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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