collapse
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After 13 days, Lindsay sued for peace, granting higher pay and pensions, setting off a wave of pension demands among the city’s public-sector unions and contributing to the city’s financial collapse in the 1970s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
The conflagration caused the building’s roof to collapse and escalated to a six-alarm fire, requiring the response of around 175 firefighters.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Since the start of the bull market, Big Tech has come out on top following previous stock-market selloffs, including the ructions that followed the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the April 2025 tariff announcement.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
A major collapse in oil prices, the largest since 2020, is bearing weight on Treasury bond yields and raising the odds of a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut later in the year.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
Once the buildings were up, in other words, Philadelphia’s hopes would collapse.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing collapse
The Great Depression and The New Deal
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