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implode

[im-plohd] / ɪmˈploʊd /
VERB
collapse inward
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Watching Graham Platner’s campaign implode was like watching that expensive red sports car get totaled.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

Without getting too complicated into how volatility is calculated, consider this scenario: You’re a money manager and the stock market begins to implode in August.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

“Businesses do not have to implode for these stocks to just take a well-deserved breather,” writes Jefferies’ U.S.

From Barron's May 26, 2026

In 2008, it had to reverse course rapidly as banks imploded, and again in 2011 as the entire euro system threatened to implode.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 5, 2026

Or would it implode as it had before?

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

If the AI trade implodes, that case only gets stronger.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

"The idea the labor market has turned a corner implodes with this report."

From BBC Mar. 6, 2026

One less thing for Kraken to worry about in rearview mirror as “feel good” story implodes under weight of seven straight losses and expected word of a move to Salt Lake City.

From Seattle Times Feb. 16, 2024

The accident comes uncannily to mind revisiting “The Abyss,” in which a damaged submersible implodes after sinking beyond its crush depth.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 29, 2023

The core implodes violently, the exterior rebounds and a supernova explosion results.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

In the weeks that followed, the father-of-three's life imploded as he became involved in a protracted extradition battle.

From BBC May 4, 2026

I want to be careful about what I’m not saying: I am not saying private credit is the next subprime market, which imploded in 2008.

From MarketWatch Apr. 22, 2026

Plans changed again before the scheduled launch in early 2021, when Credit Suisse’s hedge-fund business imploded; so he found another backer, a large hedge fund named Squarepoint Capital.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 4, 2026

The company imploded after a dispute with bank partners revealed a massive shortfall in customer funds and a failure to keep accurate ledgers, according to court filings in Synapse’s bankruptcy proceeding.

From MarketWatch Mar. 17, 2026

It was quite possible that Artemis would have sat like that for some time, totally detached from the situation at hand, had not the front door imploded, shaking the manor to its foundations.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

When hotel- and sales-tax revenue began imploding weeks later due to pandemic shutdowns, city leaders laid off more than 400 municipal employees, roughly 20% of its workforce.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

While this match may have reminded him why he gave up the captaincy four years ago, he has once again held together a batting line-up that risked imploding.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

The big question is whether there’s a risk of it suddenly imploding.

From MarketWatch May 17, 2026

New Jersey started imploding the day after Christmas in 2024.

From Slate Oct. 17, 2025

The jockey lived hard and lean and tended to die young, trampled under the hooves of horses or imploding from the pressures of his vocation.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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