collapse
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A plunge in tech firms in New York on Friday was followed by a similar collapse for their Asian counterparts on Monday, sending Seoul's Kospi down more than eight percent.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Infrastructure damage, meanwhile, means some communities will be cut off for at least a week because of the damage to roads and the collapse of a bridge.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Many observers in the 1990s believed that the communist collapse in Central and Eastern Europe would spread globally.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Eriksen's first collapse came nine years after Fabrice Muamba's near-fatal injury at Tottenham and 19 years after Marc-Vivien Foe tragically lost his life in Lyon.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Huddled under the arch, Torak prayed that it wouldn’t collapse.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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