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buckle

[buhk-uhl] / ˈbʌk əl /




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Because their play Sunday could buckle the resolve of even true believers.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

That physical constraint causes the growing body to buckle and twist into a right-handed coil.

From Science Daily Sep. 1, 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

Balogun was sent off after his foot landed on the ankle of Bosnia's Tarik Muharemovic, causing it to buckle.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

Part of me worries it’s going to buckle underneath her—not because of her, but because one of the chair legs looks like it could use a good tightening.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

“Just every department: boots, hats, belt, buckles, T-shirts, Western shirts,” store co-owner Julie Newport told The Times of Haaland’s purchases.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

He is paying farmers near Cancale to butcher lambs and rabbits; Claude buckles the meat into his wife’s matching vinyl suitcases and carries them himself by train to Paris.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Gauff hit a trio of unreturned first serves - all just under the 120mph mark, teeing up three match points as Sonmez buckled on the first after a short rally.

From BBC Sep. 2, 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

Suddenly, there was a crack and the leaf buckled under his weight.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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

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

"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

It was all she could do to keep her knees from buckling.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan




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