shattered

You're driving along the road and a stray pebble hits your windscreen.
Nothing happens.

More of those pebbles at different points in time keeps hitting the windscreen.
A crack appears.

The crack eventually works its way and shatters the windscreen.

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Replace the windscreen and no one would know better.
No one but you.