collapse
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Large waves from Post-Tropical Cyclone Rachel battered homes across Southern California over the weekend, leaving some properties at risk of collapse.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
A bitcoin-mining business that appeared left for dead after the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire is being resuscitated to serve the artificial-intelligence build-out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The yellow house on Seaside Walk began to collapse Sunday morning, according to two Long Beach Fire Department lifeguards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Still, the risk isn’t that stocks suddenly collapse, but that money slowly drifts elsewhere, Rizzuto told MarketWatch on Friday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
The tank collapse at the Cosmo Oil refinery caused a fire that raged for more than a week after the earthquake.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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A humanoid’s frantic attempts to stay upright—arms flailing, legs skittering—bears an uncanny resemblance to the choreographed collapses of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
It usually moves out to about 50 basis points, or collapses to zero.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Successive column collapses generate pyroclastic density currents with the resulting deposits reaching several hundred meters in thickness, as they did in the last super-eruption.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
It’s one of the most epic collapses for a league champion in MLS history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
A critical mass is reached, and now your soul collapses in upon itself.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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Arcee, an open-source AI startup, recently secured commitments for both capital and computing capacity from an infrastructure partner, said CEO Mark McQuade, but the deal collapsed when the firm’s data center was delayed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
They said at least one man collapsed in mid-September and was hospitalized for dehydration, and meals have been served as early as 4 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
But in Taiwan on Wednesday, union representatives said hundreds of workers at a Micron plant had voted in favour of a strike, after talks with the US company over bonus reforms collapsed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The NCP business collapsed in March 2026 after a sustained period of declining performance left it unable to pay its debts.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The third landslide Two minutes after the earthquake, a third landslide collapsed the summit of Mount St. Helens into its crater.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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"It's not in danger of collapsing externally, but internally there is no roof," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
An Israeli passenger, Yaniv Hayun, and a crew member broke into the cockpit, which the wounded Indian pilot may have unlocked before collapsing by the door.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
During the earliest stage of solar system formation, the collapsing cloud of gas and dust may have generated a plasma containing charged particles.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
The newspaper said the parties have discussed compromises, including agreeing to keep Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. film studios separate for a period of time rather than immediately collapsing them into one unit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Every crew that crossed her tolt the company over and over that it was ’bout three years overdue from collapsing, but them folk in Charlotte didn’t care.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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