collapse

Example Sentences

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Perhaps it feels worse because the stock market dip has been accompanied by intense volatility in precious metals and a crypto collapse.

From MarketWatch

“We call it stumping out—it means that your legs just give out and you collapse,” Rahlves said.

From The Wall Street Journal

He says the market for the flats has collapsed, in part because future buyers are put off by the scale of the standing charges.

From BBC

Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Washington and Moscow went through some brief periods without a major arms control treaty in place.

From BBC

Cuba has been going through its worst crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union, primarily because of decades of economic mismanagement, made worse by the Covid epidemic, which decimated its tourism industry.

From The Wall Street Journal