fall apart

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"Fiction is about sharing experiences," he says -- a process that helps us to be "emotionally prepared when something serious happens to us in life, so we don't fall apart."

From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

But the scheme began to fall apart when employees of those operations returned some of the wire transfers and began to raise concerns about possible fraud.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

It is possible that a merger won’t happen and talks could fall apart or that Musk could decide on a different path.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

Everything depended on Katherine’s ability to hold her family together; she could not fall apart.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly