collapse
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"The Cuban economy can collapse, and is collapsing... but the state still functions, especially on the security side."
From BBC • May 21, 2026
So the best investors can hope for in the U.K. is probably that the government will muddle through without succumbing to a political or fiscal collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The 2023 collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was the result of losses on its holdings of long-dated securities, which had to be liquidated when the bank experienced large withdrawals by depositors.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
Suggesting emergence rather than collapse, a winged metal woman rises from a hospital bed, bathed in multicolored light projected across the walls, while translucent metallic fragments dangle overhead.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
I collapse onto the deck with Woo’s limp form.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing collapse
The Great Depression and The New Deal
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"A Retrieved Reformation" by O. Henry
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