rubble
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One issue is Gaza authorities’ woefully reduced resources to search and retrieve bodies from the rubble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
After realising Lulu was no longer with him, Berriff returned to the area where he had been buried under the rubble.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Almost 24 hours after the towers fell, fires continued to blaze through the rubble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
At the scene of the second strike, an AFP correspondent saw the ruins of a devastated villa, with large decorative columns laying on their side next to stairs littered with rubble.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Like a sinuous black lizard he slithered past slumbering creatures and around rubble heaps, never once making a sound.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing rubble
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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