buckle
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While some enjoyed the sunshine, the heat caused trains, schools and emergency services to buckle.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Roads will continue to buckle and flights will continue to be delayed from extreme heat, Marlon warns.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Some of that extra weight was what caused the steel beams to buckle, Nathan Berman, managing principal and founder of MetroLoft, told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
He managed to survive in the shielded void, a life-saving scenario that occasionally unfolds as multistory structures tumble pancake-style, support beams buckle and slabs of concrete crash down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
She wears white stockings and white shoes, fine buckle shoes with high heels.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
“We need more cowboy hats and belt buckles in Washington,” he wrote in a campaign post on July 15.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
A third possibility is that Cuba buckles under the weight of the massive economic pressure it is facing, which has already led to hours-long daily blackouts and massive food shortages on the island.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
As the state-backed property giant buckles under the weight of its debt, the government has so far refrained from stepping in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
He trains hard, mentally prepares himself and still buckles to fear.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025
She then brushed my hair, adjusted the straps and buckles on my chair, gave me a quick hug, and went home.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
The discovery of two buckled columns at the former Pfizer headquarters building in Midtown, which was undergoing an office-to-residential conversion, prompted a safety sweep by the city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The sky was the limit for turning offices into apartments – until some columns buckled.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Nathan Berman, managing principal and founder of MetroLoft, said that the steel columns may have buckled because they hadn’t been properly reinforced to support the extra weight of the new additions to the property.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The game's immense popularity sometimes also meant "servers buckled under the strain", said Reynolds, meaning connectivity problems were "rife for some time".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
He crashed through the roof of Georgiou's, shattering all the windows as it buckled under the impact.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
And the pressure on infrastructure—rail lines buckling, things like that—disrupts transport and logistics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Ukraine's energy network, already pummelled by Russian attacks over more than four years of war, was buckling under the high temperatures on Monday.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
National Rail explained that heat can cause a number of issues including overhead lines expanding and rails buckling.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Forcing it to blink is not a costless enterprise, but buckling is not costless either.
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
He took a moment and put a life jacket on, buckling it on tightly.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
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