collapse
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When Paz, a 58-year-old former senator, took office in November, he inherited a country close to collapse, with dwindling dollar reserves, fuel shortages and a widening fiscal crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
"Some parents are literally grieving children lost after years of unmet need, school trauma, mental health collapse, and systemic failure."
From BBC • May 20, 2026
This rip-roaring AI-powered bull market has already overcome a handful of potentially existential challenges, from the 2023 collapse of Silicon Valley Bank to last year’s tariff tantrum.
From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026
Suggesting emergence rather than collapse, a winged metal woman rises from a hospital bed, bathed in multicolored light projected across the walls, while translucent metallic fragments dangle overhead.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
“Do you want him to collapse inside of himself?”
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
Vocabulary lists containing collapse
The Great Depression and The New Deal
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"A Retrieved Reformation" by O. Henry
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Ghost Boys
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