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
The video also showed a corrugated-roof shelter collapsing behind them, though the school said in its post that no-one was injured.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
With oil subsidies gone, tourism collapsing and foreign investors pulling out, Cuba is in dire shape.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Here and there, tendrils of its curling white churn seemed to rise up and peer about before collapsing again into the tidal flow like whitecaps sucked back into the surf.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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