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
Because their play Sunday could buckle the resolve of even true believers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
These engineered structures are designed to bend, buckle and snap in controlled ways that provide useful functions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
His belt and Union buckle, not as fancy as Caesar’s, hold up his ragged pants.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Back then, carriers would anchor in the bay, and locals ferried sailors ashore, often swapping beers for T-shirts or belt buckles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
"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
“If you don’t swing it hard enough, the chain buckles and the embers fall out.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
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
“I’m gonna kiss my kids a few more times,” Simpson told a deputy, before the father’s attorney buckled the crying boys, now 20 months old, into car seats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Her knees buckled, and her vision swam, and she wondered for a moment if this was dying, whether she’d been cleaved in two.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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The leak wasn’t visible to the eye: They realized there was a problem when the floors started buckling.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 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
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
When I reach it, I take a deep breath of Sagan’s sweet air before I walk up the ramp and deposit my bag in the cubby, buckling in.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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