rubble
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Wembanyama set a career high for points this season, with 25 per game, and reduced opponents’ scoring to rubble, leading the NBA in blocks per game for the third consecutive year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
As Brennan and his team left the airport in a convoy of Toyota SUVs, the rubble and wreckage from years of war marked the landscape of sand, brush and sheep herds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
The houses all around have been left as rubble.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
Firefighters were trying to extinguish the blazes in the still-smoldering rubble, while rescue workers laboured to pull victims from the debris and bulldozers tried to clear a path.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
He was pinned by the rubble, but by a stroke of luck, his head was above water.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Vocabulary lists containing rubble
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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