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As the day goes on, these smelly specimens will close back up and collapse, losing their infamously rotten odor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Kazaryan planted his orchard in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union when farmland was distributed to private owners.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

The victory follows Sinner’s disastrous collapse at the French Open, where, with the injured Alcaraz missing, he began as the overwhelming favorite, only to wilt in the Parisian heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

My understanding is that the Onion won the auction to buy all the assets after its collapse, but now there are all these court rulings and back-and-forth.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026

They didn’t know for sure that subprime loans would default in sufficient numbers to cause the CDOs to collapse.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

From there, visitors have until about 3 to 5 p.m. to smell the plant before it closes back up and collapses, losing its odor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Since astronomers first identified them in the early 2000s, they have struggled to explain why these explosions remain intensely bright long after a massive star's iron core collapses and blasts its outer layers into space.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

To be exit liquidity is to be the person whose purchase of an asset lets earlier investors cash out, often just before the price collapses.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Analysts have warned, however, that if the deal collapses oil prices may rebound, which could cause inflation to rise.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

They linger there on the edge of your consciousness like the things you hear just as you’re waking up, before the dream collapses under the crushing weight of the real world.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

In 2013, the mining company collapsed and Alex returned to China but Zhang stayed in Mexico.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

These dense stellar remnants are the leftover cores of Sun like stars that have exhausted their fuel and collapsed to only about 1% of their original size.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

Figueredo hoped to identify the bodies of four women in his family, including his mother and sister, who had died when a 12-story state housing complex collapsed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Liulan was not the only reservoir that burst, locals told AFP Thursday -- another smaller one near the town of Gantang also collapsed.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

They scrambled out of the water as the roof of the tunnel finally gave out and collapsed.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

Volkswagen executives have repeatedly stressed the need for the company to slim down as collapsing sales in China have started to look less like a blip and more like a new normal.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

The camaraderie was evident on the ground here in La Guaira, the coastal city where quake damage was most severe, collapsing dozens of buildings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

A British mortgage company, Market Financial Solutions, is collapsing and facing accusations of fraud, the Journal reported in March, which might lead to losses for Apollo Global Management’s Atlas SP Partners and other lenders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Instead of forming directly from collapsing stars, these black holes may have already been created by earlier black hole mergers before colliding again.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

She watched the water rise and listened to the cracking and booming of caverns collapsing.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack