come apart
Example Sentences
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Using advanced imaging techniques and earthquake data, scientists have now seen this subduction zone starting to come apart.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
It all began to come apart in 1980.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
It is known to be unreliable under pressure, and its layers are known to come apart in a process called delamination.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025
And you can already see the seams of the endless, exhausting effort to push back starting to come apart.
From Slate • Nov. 5, 2024
It was as though a necklace had come apart and each bead rolled separately across the floor.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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