crash
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By lunch period in Lampasas High School, the morning high gives way to a crash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Taylor Swift and her cat crash the Emmys.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
According to prosecutors, a section of rail found on the track may have caused the crash.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
A plane crash isn’t typically something to celebrate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The crash made Penelope cry out, and caused the Cake-Sniffing Scientist Postal Dodo Ghosts to look up from their experimenting.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Other base-related woes, from pollution to noise and helicopter crashes, have led to further complaints.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Paul Dow said he was in his house working when he heard "several large crashes and bangs" as the collision took place.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Websites need to distinguish real people from automated bots that can overwhelm sites, cause crashes and drive up costs, among other things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Commenters and neighbors have told him that crashes have happened there since the 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
I try to stop the disappointment that crashes down around me, but I must not do a very good job, because my father gives me a smile and helps me to my feet.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
One of them is Grieve, whose B-2 bomber crashed while taking off from Guam in 2008.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Every year on 11 September, bells ring to commemorate the exact time that each of the four planes crashed, and the exact time the Twin Towers fell.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
A military helicopter flies in front of the Pentagon Sept. 14, 2001, in Arlington, Va., at the impact site where a hijacked airliner crashed into the building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
An investigation was launched in July when a drone crashed into a garden in Darlington.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
It crashed to the floor, but he seemed untroubled.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
As the embassy’s labor counselor, I was in the audience of the Trades Union Congress annual conference in Brighton when word came of a plane crashing into one of the Twin Towers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Authorities said Garcia drove into the city of Elk Grove and led police on a chase before crashing into another vehicle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
An Amazon cargo plane overshot a runway as it landed Sunday in Miami, crashing into vehicles and catching fire, officials said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
The trouble with stirring up controversy, he admitted, is that it comes crashing down on your head if you underperform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Within two hours the winds picked up, quickly blowing into hurricane force, crashing waves against the rocks and hurling spray over the men in the boats, where it froze into slush.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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