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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

Strong corporate earnings and a resilient jobs market have given investors confidence that the economy won’t buckle under higher borrowing costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Concrete slabs between the homes had started to crack or buckle, with some of the fissures running all the way up to or under the homes’ walls, the news outlet reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

The decks began to buckle, and thick beams snapped like twigs.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

"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

One side of the palisade buckles and falls.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Beattie buckled but didn’t break — at least not then.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The last remaining big Wall Street holdouts have buckled under.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

They are often "outdated, too narrow, overgrown with vegetation and buckled by tree roots", complained Lisa Feitsch of the cycling association ADFC.

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

With one more tug and two more pushes, all four of Kevin’s legs had buckled and he lay on his side, clearly not at all sure how he’d gotten there.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness

A few takeaways: Companies are buckling up for a higher-yield environment; spreads—the amount a company pays above a benchmark Treasury—may widen; and those issuing debt may do so with shorter, cheaper, maturities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

But as soon as they’re in the car, buckling their seat belts, Maxine says, “What did your dad just call you?”

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri