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come apart

















VERB
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

It is known to be unreliable under pressure, and its layers are known to come apart in a process called delamination.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025

The same team leaders driving stressed employees onward—perhaps promising a light at the end of the tunnel or, more likely, setting wildly high metrics to meet—are themselves starting to come apart at the seams.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2024

And all of this would be very well, it would be rescuable, if she was not so angry with him over a broken vase that had come apart in his hands.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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