buckle
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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
The office-to-residential conversion added new construction to an existing building, causing supporting columns to buckle and steel beams to bend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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
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
It’s wearing a tiny pirate’s hat on the top of its head, decorated with a golden buckle.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
All seven members - Maya, Juria, Hinata, Harvey, Cocona, Chisa and Jurin - are dressed in vibrant neon outfits that erupt with tufts of faux fur and intricate belt buckles.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
As the state-backed property giant buckles under the weight of its debt, the government has so far refrained from stepping in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 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
She’s wearing a new black coat I haven’t seen before, with silver buckles and studs on the shoulders.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
The sky was the limit for turning offices into apartments – until some columns buckled.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
The game's immense popularity sometimes also meant "servers buckled under the strain", said Reynolds, meaning connectivity problems were "rife for some time".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Columns inside a Manhattan high-rise office building buckled Tuesday, setting off a scramble to shore up the structure before it partially collapsed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Two columns buckled and floors sagged in the former Pfizer headquarters in Midtown during an apartment conversion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
It slid right out, but one of her knuckles seemed to jerk, and my knees buckled.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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
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
Forcing it to blink is not a costless enterprise, but buckling is not costless either.
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
The horses’ blinders hung on a wooden wall that was turning black and buckling from the fire.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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