collapsing

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"These highest-energy cosmic rays are thought to come from extreme astrophysical sources, like two neutron stars colliding or a massive star collapsing," Murase said.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

"We saw walls collapsing, the floors opening up. And then water and mud began spurting up from underneath the flooring."

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Videos and images showed buildings collapsing, including a clip of a Jollibee fast food restaurant reduced to rubble.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

The emerging pattern looks less like collapsing demand for labor than a reorganization of work.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

As a Colored woman, my neck had constantly been beneath the stony foot of racial segregation, so collapsing under the weight of a bad twist of fate was a luxury I did not have.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson