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collapse

[kuh-laps] / kəˈlæps /




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The Dodgers showed signs of life during Game 3 of the NLCS, but Bill Plaschke writes the reigning champs can’t survive their crushing collapse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

The researchers say the scale of the demographic collapse has important implications for understanding intergenerational trauma, persistent disadvantage, and the development of policies that better support Indigenous communities.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

A bitcoin-mining business that appeared left for dead after the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire is being resuscitated to serve the artificial-intelligence build-out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

During the visit to the community centre they will meet retired emergency service workers who helped respond to the coal tip collapse, including a 96-year-old woman who was a police officer at the time.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The subprime mortgage market was generating half a trillion dollars’ worth of new loans a year, but the circle of people redistributing the risk that the entire market would collapse was tiny.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

One concern is the risk of a compression fracture, which is when a vertebra collapses, usually as a result of osteoporosis, according to Banner Health’s Fisher.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

It’s one of the most epic collapses for a league champion in MLS history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Finally, he collapses under a small mango tree.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Two terminals were struck and their roofs partially collapsed, people familiar with the damage said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Footage shared online, which has not been verified by the BBC, appears to show collapsed buildings in the towns of Penonomé and Soná.

From BBC ● 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

Schiff said one of his constituents, identified only as Doug, wrote him a letter expressing concern about conditions aboard the ship after his son was medically evacuated due to a collapsed lung.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

At this, a piece of the ceiling collapsed, forcing them to move.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

An Israeli passenger, Yaniv Hayun, and a crew member broke into the cockpit, which the wounded Indian pilot may have unlocked before collapsing by the door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

During the earliest stage of solar system formation, the collapsing cloud of gas and dust may have generated a plasma containing charged particles.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

The newspaper said the parties have discussed compromises, including agreeing to keep Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. film studios separate for a period of time rather than immediately collapsing them into one unit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

They were saying women were collapsing on the way round.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

How deep it went no one knew, but now, all unseen, the intricate subterranean strata were collapsing.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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