implode
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In these experiments, powerful lasers create shock waves that force a tiny diamond capsule to implode.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Watching Graham Platner’s campaign implode was like watching that expensive red sports car get totaled.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
In 2008, it had to reverse course rapidly as banks imploded, and again in 2011 as the entire euro system threatened to implode.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
Those who say capex is going to implode may be looking at consumer-oriented AI technology, which has become commoditized.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Leo’s chest felt like it might implode from guilt.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
If the AI trade implodes, that case only gets stronger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
"The idea the labor market has turned a corner implodes with this report."
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
A planned beach getaway by Lili and Esti implodes when a hotel clerk refuses to honor their reservation, a foreshadowing of far worse indignities to come.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2025
It is essential, especially as we all watch in grief as the Middle East implodes, to hasten our way to renewable energy sources and clean transit options.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
The core implodes violently, the exterior rebounds and a supernova explosion results.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
In the spring of 2008, shortly before the financial world completely imploded, I traveled around Florida reporting on the real-estate crash.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
For a while, experts linked the decline to the recession that struck in 2008 when the global financial system nearly imploded, driving millions of people into hardship.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
That all changed when Humza Yousaf's premiership imploded in April 2024.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Plans changed again before the scheduled launch in early 2021, when Credit Suisse’s hedge-fund business imploded; so he found another backer, a large hedge fund named Squarepoint Capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
It was quite possible that Artemis would have sat like that for some time, totally detached from the situation at hand, had not the front door imploded, shaking the manor to its foundations.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
When hotel- and sales-tax revenue began imploding weeks later due to pandemic shutdowns, city leaders laid off more than 400 municipal employees, roughly 20% of its workforce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The big question is whether there’s a risk of it suddenly imploding.
From MarketWatch ● May 17, 2026
New Jersey started imploding the day after Christmas in 2024.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025
The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks twice imploding without agreement, and the chair suddenly resigning this week.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
They constantly shifted configuration, some expanding by swarming over their neighbors, others imploding when their constituent villages seceded and joined other polities.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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