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buckle

[buhk-uhl] / ˈbʌk əl /




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"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

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

However, as the jet stream starts to buckle through the second half of the weekend the weather will slowly being to calm down.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

I blink against the dust, and my knees buckle a little.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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

Feathers walks to a seat on the left side, plops down, and buckles herself in.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

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

A year later, Bosnian President Biljana Plavsic buckled to international pressure and dismissed him.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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

About a half hour later, the tank’s legs buckled and broke, sending it crashing into a pipeline carrying fuel.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

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

"Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 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

“Please finish buckling her in,” Mom told Bobby Gene.

From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon


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