buckle
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All that said, investors may want to buckle up for a bumpy ride.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
"We didn't abandon seatbelts because people didn't want to buckle up, and we will not flinch at holding tech companies to account when our littlest citizens are at stake."
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Steady jobs are hard to get, pushing millions into the precarious gig economy, while others buckle under a cutthroat work culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Because their play Sunday could buckle the resolve of even true believers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
I nodded, but instead of a belt buckle, I was thinking about a very innocent-looking letter that I’d picked up that had altered the trajectory of my own life.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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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
Ellie Saab's runway featured slinky trenches that were tightly belted and Givenchy's designs appeared lighter in colour with bold black buttons and buckles.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
The glitter of silver and the glow of turquoise shone out from that crowd in the shape of necklaces and bracelets and earrings on the women, belt buckles and hat bands on the men.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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During the subprime-mortgage crisis, some ARM borrowers buckled under balloon payments when the initial fixed term of the loan expired.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Beattie buckled but didn’t break — at least not then.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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
The sword was handed to Don Quixote and his spurs were buckled.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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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
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
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
They show riders from children to young people on a night out stepping into Waymos and buckling up, along with shots of Waymos swerving to avoid accidents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
His hat was askew, and he was still buckling his pants.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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