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Roads will continue to buckle and flights will continue to be delayed from extreme heat, Marlon warns.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The office-to-residential conversion added new construction to an existing building, causing supporting columns to buckle and steel beams to bend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Balogun was sent off after his foot landed on the ankle of Bosnia's Tarik Muharemovic, causing it to buckle.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

This approach enabled us to create a material that can bend, buckle, or stiffen differently under slow movements versus sudden impacts -- without electronics, sensors, or active control.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026

Fern had just come out in Lockhart, and it was time to buckle down to the business of meeting bachelors.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

“We need more cowboy hats and belt buckles in Washington,” he wrote in a campaign post on July 15.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

A third possibility is that Cuba buckles under the weight of the massive economic pressure it is facing, which has already led to hours-long daily blackouts and massive food shortages on the island.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

As much of Europe buckles under the weight of mass tourism, Georgia is only now getting in on the action in earnest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

He trains hard, mentally prepares himself and still buckles to fear.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025

François fastened upon him an arrangement of straps and buckles.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

Elsewhere, vehicles on a two-lane road were seen carefully navigating sections of buckled pavement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

That project was put on hold after two steel columns buckled, forcing an evacuation of nine surrounding buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

After Wales' scrum buckled early on, an ineffective attacking play involving Thomas resulted in Springboks hooker Malcolm Marx achieving a turnover penalty with rampaging lock Cobus Wiese almost crossing the Welsh line before knocking on.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The sky was the limit for turning offices into apartments – until some columns buckled.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

Håkon tried to set Wielaf down, but the elf’s legs buckled beneath him and he hit the floor.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

A high-rise building in New York City under construction is structurally unstable after two of its support columns started buckling on Tuesday morning.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

The war has taken a significant toll on an economy already buckling under runaway inflation—which hit 88.6% year-on-year in June—a weakened currency and years of compounding international isolation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

"Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

Forcing it to blink is not a costless enterprise, but buckling is not costless either.

From Slate ● May 18, 2026

I kept my eyes on the strap I was buckling.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns