collapse
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The difference resulted from a channel collapse that constrained barge capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Emergency repairs and cleanup were underway Monday in California's wave-battered city of Long Beach, where several homes appeared on the brink of collapse and remained too dangerous to enter.
From Barron's ● 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
I tighten my throat, dash, collapse over the toilet, and throw up.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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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
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
But by afternoon on a recent weekday, Josh Charles actually looks like he teleported to the past as he collapses into a seat inside his production trailer in upstate New York.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
That means that if the building’s elevator collapses or there is a fire that severely damages the building, homeowners are on the hook to pay for the repairs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
He collapses into the dining booth and looks up at the over-cab bunk where he’s supposed to sleep.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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Albertsons’ struggles after the deal collapsed were predicted by its former CEO, Vivek Sankaran, in a Portland, Ore., federal courtroom in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
"I remember nothing until day four when I was brought round but a few hours later, I was ventilated again because both my lungs collapsed," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Images shared by local media showed that part of a hotel had collapsed in the town of Penonome, 150 kilometers southwest of Panama City.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
After 150,000 union members across the country refused to handle any Pullman railcars on any railroad, the U.S. transportation system collapsed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
She ran back to the house and nearly collapsed in the foyer, where the entry clock provided unwelcome news.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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Mangled drill towers and collapsing offshore platforms are visible as far as the eye can see.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
"It's not in danger of collapsing externally, but internally there is no roof," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Wherever you look in “Digger,” the world is collapsing: Ceilings spring leaks, coffee makers explode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
"Protection cannot be reduced indefinitely without systems collapsing," said Dominique Hyde, UNHCR's external relations chief.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
The soils beneath Berlin were sandy and unstable; engineers quickly determined that the entire length of the 1,800-foot tunnel had to be sheathed in steel, to prevent the structure from collapsing.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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