fall apart

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Pahlavi and Ebadi, the human rights activist, tried to create a broad alliance after the women’s rights protests in 2022 but it fell apart over their personal disputes.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each of those stages is one more opportunity for the user to get distracted and for things to fall apart.

From The Wall Street Journal

And as her marriage and literary career fall apart, her psychiatric problems intensify.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead, on the biggest night of his young career, before an audience eager to see things it had never seen, and validate him as skating’s best ever, Malinin fell, then fell apart.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ilia Malinin fell apart in the men’s free skate, tumbling from near lock to win the gold medal to eighth place after a disastrous performance Friday.

From Los Angeles Times