come apart
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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
He described how in some fragments, the carbon fibre layers had come apart - a known process called delamination.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2024
Seen together, the three videos show multiple rockets were launched from inside Gaza before one appears to have come apart in midair about three seconds before the explosion at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023
When our world ends its structure will come apart.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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