collapse
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The Kospi’s six-week collapse erased roughly $2.5 trillion in market value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
But it’s not as extreme of an intervention as Mario Draghi’s “whatever it takes” pledge to preserve the euro or Ben Bernanke’s bazooka program in response to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, experts say.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
In recent days, the government had ordered the expulsion of people and safety measures around the site because of fears of a collapse.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
"There may be a slow creeping effect of chemical accumulation that will contribute to delayed colony collapse."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Within a few months after the match ended, Vasiljevic’s financial house of cards began to collapse.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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He anticipates that both will use their mobility to make plays if the pocket collapses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
This is especially true when the inequality persists intergenerationally: Social mobility declines and public belief in opportunity for all collapses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
"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
This detail matters because it collapses the false divide between pleasure and care.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
I am afraid that innocent Egyptians will get hurt when the machine collapses.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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The escalation comes after cross-border trade talks collapsed over the weekend after the U.S. added last-minute requests to a nearly completed deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Just about 5:45 a.m., some of the building front collapsed, sending firefighters scrambling to get out of the way, video from the scene showed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Thirty people died in Guinea's capital Conakry on Sunday when a mound of rubbish in a landfill collapsed before dawn onto neighbouring homes following heavy rains, the government said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
Talks for a new trade deal between the U.S. and Canada collapsed late Friday, raising the prospect of a trade war between the two neighbors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
Tumbling mats had been spread out to cover part of the floor and I collapsed onto one of them.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Firefighters were in “defensive mode” and were not entering the building due to risks of it collapsing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
He once slept an hour a night for a month straight before collapsing at the office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
An attractive force pulling the particles together is precisely counteracted by pressure produced by the fermions, keeping the droplet from collapsing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
But he added it was "simply not possible to prevent all offenders from being released early without the prison system collapsing".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
I got the bike into the house and barely made it to my bed before collapsing.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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