shatter
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A technical adviser appointed by the family believes the incident began with a failure in the aircraft's right engine, causing debris to strike and shatter the cabin window before the rapid loss of cabin pressure.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Revealing his luxurious lifestyle would shatter the state’s propaganda that Kim suffers alongside his people—nearly half of whom are malnourished.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
But 2026 could shatter records, with rocket and AI company SpaceX, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and AI startup Anthropic all potentially making their stock market debuts.
From Barron's ● May 17, 2026
“Michael” went on to shatter box-office records for biopics, raking in almost $220 million worldwide during its first opening weekend.
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
I decided that if my house was going to shatter, I would just as soon be in it.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Joyce said the tattoo breakdown occurs when a laser targets the ink particles and shatters them into more manageable particles for your immune system to metabolise.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The number shatters the previous high-water mark that was set when a group led by private-equity titan Joshua Harris bought the Washington Commanders for $6 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Read: Oil shatters $100 ceiling, hitting levels not seen since 2022 as Iran conflict escalates.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026
It’s that type of benevolence that fuels Minnesota nice, and what shatters it.
From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026
She takes a hammer and rusty chisel and shatters each coconut, scraping the blinding white, perfumed flesh from the shells.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Whatever sense of invulnerability America may have had as the world’s only superpower was shattered, and it precipitated massive changes in the way we lived, traveled and perceived ourselves.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
"The windows partially shattered, the stones from the track came into the carriage. It was really shocking. I'm still shaking."
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
“It was systematic. They entered the depots and stole everything they could,” said Umaima Abdul-Rahman Al-Sanusi, one of the museum’s curators, as her eyes scanned a shattered display case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
After climbing from the car, he sat down behind the barriers, his head bowed, shattered by his error.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Another stela crashed to the floor and shattered.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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As the luminous, sweet and steel-spined Doralee, she doesn’t just hold her own, she shines, shattering the same sexist assumptions that often plagued Dolly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Both apps allowed wagers on the number of “explosive diarrhea” cyclosporiasis and measles cases this year, with both outbreaks shattering records.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
There had also been a shattering event in Paris for the second year in a row.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Americans have turned out in droves to watch this summer’s World Cup, shattering TV viewership records to catch underdog upsets, late-game goals and, on Monday night, the U.S. team’s loss to Belgium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
In a recent study of the reaction to dying in patients with obstructive disease of the lungs, it was concluded that the process was considerably more shattering for the professional observers than the observed.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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