collapse
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Such attacks led to the collapse of an April ceasefire between the United States and Iran.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Excuse me while I collapse — not from some migra man buzzing me with their new toy, but from laughter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
His fanaticism, and his late-career defense of communism after the Soviet collapse in 1991, were nothing if not eccentric.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
If you are convinced that mortgage rates, currently around 6.7%, are going to collapse again, you don’t have to buy a home to benefit.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
The scream builds inside, and I start kicking the leaves, the tree trunks, whatever is in my way until I slip and collapse onto a stump.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
Overnight on Monday into Tuesday, several people several people spent the night outdoors in cities like Pereira and Cali - either due to their homes being destroyed, or fear of further collapses.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
This is just the latest in a series of total collapses of the electricity grid.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
It isn’t as if she doesn’t have several plans B. And it gives “Techniquely” a winningly informal bouquet, especially when the jokes fall flat and she collapses, mock-groaning, on the cutting board.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Staff there lost over $1 billion in the collapse, which took place, like many collapses, in a matter of weeks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
When an extremely massive star collapses, it disappears.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
After at least a dozen applicants collapsed and died during the run, possibly from the heat, the government temporarily suspended the tests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Bang, who won her first professional event in just her fifth start earlier this year, was preparing for a tournament in Thailand on 1 August when she collapsed.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
County firefighters helped an international team rescue a man trapped for eight days under a collapsed building after devastating Venezuela earthquakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Barclays team found that over the past week, during which the S&P 500 hit a fresh record high, “skews across global indices collapsed as investors chased the rally and demand for protection faded.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
When George was settled, Owen collapsed beside him.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
The governor of East Nusa Tenggara Province, Emanuel Melkiades Laka Lena, told a press conference they were killed in their sleep by collapsing rubble.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Rather than collapsing into an infinite singularity, it reaches a very high but finite density and then reverses direction, expanding outward.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Tattoo artist Andres Hernandez said he was worried about his family and friends, adding that he would stay awake because structures around him were "on the verge of collapsing."
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
“The situation with warehouses collapsing one after another shows that this strategy was, overall, the wrong one.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Liddy shouted, collapsing the antenna of his walkie-talkie.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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