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collapse

[kuh-laps] / kəˈlæps /




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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

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

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

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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