collapse
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Interestingly, the team pointed out in a chart shared on X that Situational Awareness getting liquidated occurred at roughly the same stage in the bull run as the collapse of LTCM.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
Paramount also faces a potential $7-billion payment to Warner Bros. should the merger collapse by next summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Is this evidence of a collapse of Spanish sovereignty?
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
She said the institutions were always in a precarious position adding "it's a possibility" that the institutions could collapse because either big party can walk away.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Back in March, Cornwall had bought $105 million in credit default swaps on Bear Stearns—that is, they’d made a bet on the collapse of Bear Stearns—from the British bank HSBC.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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"Human casualties, building collapses, road damage, fires... have been confirmed so far," Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on X, adding there were also "water and power outages".
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
It isn’t as if she doesn’t have several plans B. And it gives “Techniquely” a winningly informal bouquet, especially when the jokes fall flat and she collapses, mock-groaning, on the cutting board.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The first approach uses hydrodynamic cavitation, which creates and collapses tiny vapor bubbles in contaminated water.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Root's unbeaten 76 at Edgbaston kept England in contention, with a 121-run partnership with Liam Dawson coming between collapses of 6-107 and 4-30, while an undefeated 99 in Cardiff anchored England's successful chase.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
But when the soil is shaken, the structure holding up the grains collapses, causing water from below to rise toward the surface.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Millions of pounds of spoiled food remain inside the collapsed warehouse facility, two weeks before classes begin for local L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Five people were also confirmed killed and four others were unaccounted for at the Nippon Paper Industries factory in Yatsushiro city, where part of a red-and-white smokestack collapsed, a government official told AFP on Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Columbia collapsed under the attack, but Harvard resisted and achieved some notable success in the courts.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
By June this year, imports had collapsed to around seven million barrels a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
With a tremendous crash! a section of barn floor collapsed into the cellar.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
The fire broke out on June 17, burning for more than a week and collapsing the 500,000-square-foot facility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
In rehearsal and performance, they develop the capacity to hold another’s reality without collapsing it into their own.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
Footage also showed parts of a wall at the centuries-old Kumamoto Castle collapsing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
The researchers next placed the larvae inside miniature pressure chambers to determine how much pressure the air sacs could withstand before collapsing.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
Boxton was a tired town, a neglected place that looked as if it was in danger of collapsing in on itself.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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