buckle
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Previously, a customer buying a belt buckle was nudged toward a matching belt or hat, items that closely related to the original purchase, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Higher insurance costs could cause some homeowners to buckle under the financial pressure, Cotality said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Concrete slabs between the homes had started to crack or buckle, with some of the fissures running all the way up to or under the homes’ walls, the news outlet reported.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
That physical constraint causes the growing body to buckle and twist into a right-handed coil.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
“I miss everyone already,” I say, fumbling with the buckle on my seat belt.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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"So they detach the slow-growing gut, which is now tethering the lengthening body. The body buckles and twists into coiling," Miyashita explains.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
“We need more cowboy hats and belt buckles in Washington,” he wrote in a campaign post on July 15.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
Neatly labeled drawers hold hand fans, plastic snakes, buttons, buckles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Your buckles should face not left, not right, but straight ahead.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Into the suitcase went the cameras, the leather wallets, the rings, the belt buckles.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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The last remaining big Wall Street holdouts have buckled under.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Town hall-hopefuls have also pledged to clean up graffiti-covered train stations, end "forever-building sites", fix buckled cycling lanes and take steps to ease a desperate shortage of affordable housing.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Richard Wilcock, Rail Magazine industry editor, said it was hard to know the cause without speculating, but photographs appeared to show "clearly a buckled track".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
I had only ever seen him on Zoom, and although he was tall, which was nice, I tried not to judge his brown cracked-leather buckled pilgrim shoes paired with high-waist Wrangler jeans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
They slammed back down, then heaved up again, and then the doors buckled.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
The leak wasn’t visible to the eye: They realized there was a problem when the floors started buckling.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
A high-rise building in New York City under construction is structurally unstable after two of its support columns started buckling on Tuesday morning.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The war has taken a significant toll on an economy already buckling under runaway inflation—which hit 88.6% year-on-year in June—a weakened currency and years of compounding international isolation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
With Cuba's economy buckling five months into a US-imposed fuel blockade, and the national housing deficit running to over 900,000 units, authorities say a quick fix is unlikely.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Some were still buckling their equipment or eating the bread that had been tossed to them.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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