kaput
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During that winter, the farmhouse's cellar flooded, the pipes froze and "the tractor just decided to go kaput".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
So as the season begins, The Bear is long on stress, short on food, the plumbing is kaput, the reservation line has stopped working and then started again and the place is impossibly overbooked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
With less than a month of games remaining, the Lakers season is done, finished, kaput.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
His latest acquisition is a spider that, unbeknown to Kaleb, was smuggled from a Middle Eastern desert after rendering one of its captors agonizingly kaput.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
“Oh, well, that’s the easy part. Stay away from her: your problem’s kaput.’
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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