buckle
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Higher insurance costs could cause some homeowners to buckle under the financial pressure, Cotality said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
That physical constraint causes the growing body to buckle and twist into a right-handed coil.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
Roads will continue to buckle and flights will continue to be delayed from extreme heat, Marlon warns.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The museum also confirmed it lost a bust, brooches, a perfume bottle, two bracelets, comb, hatpin, belt buckle and several necklaces and pendants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Sohrab said something in Farsi to his uncle, who looked like his knees were about to buckle.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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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
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
“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
Håkon tried to set Wielaf down, but the elf’s legs buckled beneath him and he hit the floor.
From Anya and the Nightingale 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
And the pressure on infrastructure—rail lines buckling, things like that—disrupts transport and logistics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Video from inside the building shows the buckling beam.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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
It had been hours, now, since all this began, the first twinge, then the rhythmic, hardening pain, and later, the buckling on of the mask.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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