rubble
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One issue is Gaza authorities’ woefully reduced resources to search and retrieve bodies from the rubble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
After many minutes of crawling to try and escape the "hell hole that I was in", Berriff emerged from under the rubble.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Almost 24 hours after the towers fell, fires continued to blaze through the rubble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The documentary powerfully captures the apocalyptic landscape of Gaza City, its streets reduced to rubble and mangled rebar, and the weighty sense of responsibility shouldered by the few remaining journalists on the ground.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Before the rubble of the last war had even been cleared, Stalin feared that a new and ominous threat to Soviet security lay at Russia's doorstep.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
Vocabulary lists containing rubble
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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"The End and the Beginning," Vocabulary from the poem
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