collapse
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“We are low-keying it with Iran,” he told a reporter with Axios in a phone call on Sunday, meaning that he’s just waiting for Iran to collapse.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
That timing supports the conclusion that natural selection associated with diet, rather than the later population collapse, was responsible for the genetic pattern seen today.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
“If sales collapse completely, it will certainly be bad for everyone,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
As a result, you could see the charts collapse.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
I give up on staying dry and collapse against the tree trunk.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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This is just the latest in a series of total collapses of the electricity grid.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Calderas form when an eruption empties such an enormous volume of magma that the ground above the reservoir collapses.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
It isn’t as if she doesn’t have several plans B. And it gives “Techniquely” a winningly informal bouquet, especially when the jokes fall flat and she collapses, mock-groaning, on the cutting board.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Root's unbeaten 76 at Edgbaston kept England in contention, with a 121-run partnership with Liam Dawson coming between collapses of 6-107 and 4-30, while an undefeated 99 in Cardiff anchored England's successful chase.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Felicia collapses on her mother’s lap, sending the swing lurching crazily, and wails to the heavens.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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The governor of Colombia's Choco province wrote on X that there was serious damage in the provincial capital Quibdo, where video showed collapsed buildings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
By the time the bubble burst, the industry was sitting on huge amounts of unused “dark fiber,” which collapsed prices and crushed heavily indebted operators.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Colombian newspaper El Tiempo shared footage it said was taken in the city of Manizales, in the country's coffee region, showing a collapsed building and people shouting to those they fear could be trapped underneath.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
It creaked past his shelter, past the collapsed buildings and ravaged orchards towards the west, away from the Yellow Line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Boaz’s eyes glazed, the color vanishing from his face as he collapsed back onto the ground.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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With black smoke belching high into the sky, Lobga staggers some 90 seconds before collapsing in flames and a U.N. security guard rushes over blasting an extinguisher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The prime minister said making more prisoners exempt was not possible without the prison system collapsing and putting the public "at much greater risk".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Jones Trading’s Michael O’Rourke wants us to pay attention to collapsing AI-token prices.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The fire broke out on June 17, burning for more than a week and collapsing the 500,000-square-foot facility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The difference was that there was very little history to work with in the subprime mortgage bond market, and no history at all of a collapsing national real estate market.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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