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buckle

[buhk-uhl] / ˈbʌk əl /




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Roads will continue to buckle and flights will continue to be delayed from extreme heat, Marlon warns.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Everything from seat-belt buckle mechanisms to door latches could change how passengers might evacuate in an emergency, or how they are protected in a crash, Federal Aviation Administration chief Bryan Bedford told reporters last month.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

Depending on the situation, the material can bend, buckle, or stiffen in different ways, all without electronics, sensors, or active control systems.

From Science Daily Jun. 11, 2026

Cops with the most seizures would pose for pictures with pro-wrestling-style championship belt that had “Mission GED Pistoleros” emblazoned on the buckle.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 4, 2026

I snapped the chin-strap buckle of my bike helmet.

From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez

“We need more cowboy hats and belt buckles in Washington,” he wrote in a campaign post on July 15.

From Slate Jul. 23, 2026

“Your buckles should face not left, not right, but straight ahead.”

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

He trains hard, mentally prepares himself and still buckles to fear.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2025

He buckles Maisie into her car seat while Niko studies a swarm of ants devouring cookie crumbs on their driveway.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2025

Pretending to be the Old Hermit of the Szythian Mountains, a man with missing teeth exclaimed over the exquisite footwear of his neighbors and fluttered his fingers along their buckles and aglets.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

Elsewhere, vehicles on a two-lane road were seen carefully navigating sections of buckled pavement.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

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

After Wales' scrum buckled early on, an ineffective attacking play involving Thomas resulted in Springboks hooker Malcolm Marx achieving a turnover penalty with rampaging lock Cobus Wiese almost crossing the Welsh line before knocking on.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Her day satchel was packed, her uniform was on, shoes buckled; she’d wrestled her hair into a tight bun the way the matrons insisted she do.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

Christine Ji and Hannah Pedone looked into the reasons for the buckling AI trade, with more than two-thirds of stocks in the S&P 500 information technology sector down at least 20% from their recent highs.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 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

Millions of people across the continent are currently "living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling", he added.

From BBC Jun. 28, 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

I sprang forward into the sea of empty metal shelves, half of which were knocked flat on their backs or leaning against others in slanted lines, their shelves buckling under some invisible weight.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken




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