wreckage
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Emergency services combed through the wreckage at night to find further victims on the key line linking Madrid with the southern city of Seville, hoisting pieces of mangled metal with cranes, AFP reporters saw.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
"It was hard to witness", Binier said, adding that his father carried a girl who had a broken hip out of the wreckage.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department divers found Romero’s body in the helicopter wreckage, some 218 feet below, a day later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
As we look at the wreckage together, she begins to disparage it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
I find the gash in the swamp, the ditch, find the wreckage of her ship, but there’s nothing there except what we left.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
Vocabulary lists containing wreckage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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