collapse
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The Kospi’s six-week collapse erased roughly $2.5 trillion in market value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
"Significant" resources and personnel - including the military - have been deployed to search for survivors after the collapse at about 02:00 local time following heavy rain overnight, the government added in a statement.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
In recent days, the government had ordered the expulsion of people and safety measures around the site because of fears of a collapse.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
"There may be a slow creeping effect of chemical accumulation that will contribute to delayed colony collapse."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Finally, they were too tired, and the sisters carried the little boys on their backs until the evening sun began to set and the girls were near collapse.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
Overnight on Monday into Tuesday, several people several people spent the night outdoors in cities like Pereira and Cali - either due to their homes being destroyed, or fear of further collapses.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
This is especially true when the inequality persists intergenerationally: Social mobility declines and public belief in opportunity for all collapses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
This is just the latest in a series of total collapses of the electricity grid.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
This detail matters because it collapses the false divide between pleasure and care.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
He collapses with a scream, and I am exposed.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
Local authorities said 15 people were taken to hospital, including a pregnant woman who was injured after her house collapsed on her, according to AFP news agency.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Just about 5:45 a.m., some of the building front collapsed, sending firefighters scrambling to get out of the way, video from the scene showed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Thirty people died in Guinea's capital Conakry on Sunday when a mound of rubbish in a landfill collapsed before dawn onto neighbouring homes following heavy rains, the government said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
Talks for a new trade deal between the U.S. and Canada collapsed late Friday, raising the prospect of a trade war between the two neighbors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
Their secret still safe from Mudd and his family, and their location a mystery to the manhunters, Herold and Booth collapsed into their beds.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
Firefighters were in “defensive mode” and were not entering the building due to risks of it collapsing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
He once slept an hour a night for a month straight before collapsing at the office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
"I got seizures every day, which made school completely impossible because I was collapsing every day," she remembered.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The collapsing capsule compresses fusion fuel to the extraordinary pressures and temperatures required for fusion reactions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
In fact, they could not help but reenact the Fall of Rome several more times, as it was great fun to keep collapsing and getting up again.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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