wreckage
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For Víctor Colivert, the most important thing now was staying by the side of his nephew's body, recovered from a building's wreckage and now in a black body bag.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Both look back to Reconstruction, to the debates surrounding the citizenship clause, and to the constitutional wreckage left behind by Dred Scott.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Thomas E. Franklin’s “Raising the Flag at Ground Zero,” taken only hours after the twin towers had collapsed, provided a glimmer of hope among the wreckage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Video footage shows rescuers cheering as the child, named as Klieber Morán by the country's interim president, is pulled from wreckage in La Guaira state.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
At one end of the cove, an enormous pileup of wreckage from years of storms provided a steady supply of firewood: block and tackle, hatch gratings, spars, masts, lockers.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing wreckage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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Compound Fracture
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