wreckage
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The disorder looks like the wreckage of an unknown chaos.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
It took almost two years and multiple search campaigns to find the wreckage and the plane’s black box recorders.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
She unlocked the doors, crawled from the wreckage and rolled herself away from the vehicle.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Makan’s casket, however, is empty — a symbolic burial for a child whose body was never recovered from the wreckage.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
She recognizes the unmistakable signs of a flashback: a woman at a window, a woman with a past, with memory and desire and wreckage in her heart.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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Compound Fracture
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