collapse
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She had been released from prison a few months earlier after being convicted on charges related to FTX’s collapse, and her Anthropic shares were forfeited to the federal government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The August 26 flood, triggered by a glacial mountain collapse near the China-Nepal border, has killed more than 1,400 people, the majority in Nepal.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
In August, Mladenov warned that a collapse of last October's ceasefire would be "a point of no return" for the region.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
It is also one of the cities where thousands of people lost their homes after the collapse of Nova Khakova Dam in 2023, flooding buildings up to their rooftops.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
At night he’d collapse into his little droopy tent next to Paul’s.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
A humanoid’s frantic attempts to stay upright—arms flailing, legs skittering—bears an uncanny resemblance to the choreographed collapses of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
That means that if the building’s elevator collapses or there is a fire that severely damages the building, homeowners are on the hook to pay for the repairs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
To bridge that gap, standard quantum mechanics says that when a quantum system is measured or observed, its wavefunction collapses into a single definite outcome.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Not all disasters are foreseeable but those that relate to geology, like landslides and glacier collapses, can often be detected early in the data, if there is capacity to spot the pattern.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
He collapses with a scream, and I am exposed.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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The cloud collapsed and flattened into a disk, eventually giving rise to the sun at its center and the planets that formed around it.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
Sure enough, in early 2023, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed after a customer panic tied to losses on the bank’s bondholdings during the rate-hike campaign.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
"His friend slumped and fainted, and many others also collapsed."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Crews have been working toward removing and delinking them, Cortez said, but had not been able to get to them because the wall they were against could have collapsed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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
Communities across all states bordering Wyoming face darkness, breathing difficulties and roofs collapsing under accumulated ash.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The newspaper said the parties have discussed compromises, including agreeing to keep Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. film studios separate for a period of time rather than immediately collapsing them into one unit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
They were saying women were collapsing on the way round.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Further south, at least seven homes in Dana Point were declared uninhabitable after the coast on which they sit rapidly eroded, with one house collapsing into the sea.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Then the entire deck hovers in the air for a moment before collapsing onto the table, cards scattering out over the red felt surface.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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