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come apart

















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snap
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Using advanced imaging techniques and earthquake data, scientists have now seen this subduction zone starting to come apart.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

It all began to come apart in 1980.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

And you can already see the seams of the endless, exhausting effort to push back starting to come apart.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2024

The Ship lights its engines before the two halves of the vehicle come apart.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024

In the upper reaches of the atmosphere you’d come apart, you’d vaporize, there would be no pressure holding you together.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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