implode

Watching Graham Platner’s campaign implode was like watching that expensive red sports car get totaled.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026

But any nominee will have to unite Platner's wounded supporters with moderates, independents and women voters wary of a party that just watched its chosen candidate implode.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 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

As history has proved, titans of industry often share a regrettable tendency to make a lot of money from leveraging enthusiasm and then leaving others to clean up the mess when the markets implode.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

And then he and the guys will be pissed, and it will be this whole big thing, and our whole friend group will implode.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

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

As that way of filmmaking implodes, audiences are turning to movies that rebel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2025

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

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

In the spring of 2008, shortly before the financial world completely imploded, I traveled around Florida reporting on the real-estate crash.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

For a while, experts linked the decline to the recession that struck in 2008 when the global financial system nearly imploded, driving millions of people into hardship.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

Consider the “Enron tapes,” the secretly recorded conversations of Enron employees that surfaced after the company imploded.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

If the robot detects a problem, such as a knee joint that stops responding, it will try to recover its balance; if it can’t, he said, it will collapse onto itself like an imploding building.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 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

When she moved from public housing to a three-bedroom home in a suburban area in the Northwood section of town, she was trying to create more distance between her and the city’s imploding center.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore