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In effect, say critics, those cases tend to crumble unless a prosecutor can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a victim was unconscious—and, therefore, “physically helpless” and unable to communicate—not just stumbling drunk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

"The coastline flanking the sea arch has shown signs of instability for years," NPS, which warned in 2021 that the arch would eventually crumble, said in a statement.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

His photographs capture not only the movie houses but their ornate facades and decay -- a record of a cultural landscape disappearing as cinemas are demolished, converted into multiplexes or left to crumble.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Seiler wanted to know whether researchers could recover writing from these carbonized scrolls without physically unrolling them, an action that could cause the brittle papyrus to crumble into black dust.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

“It sickens me when I look at this great Exposition to think that it will be allowed to crumble to dust,” he said.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

As sentiment about AI crumbles, Klement said the stock market could fall about 35% — hence his 5,000 target for the S&P 500.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

But it’s now clear that once you abandon all restraint and say the ends justify the means, even if there’s an argument for it, the whole legal edifice crumbles.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026

It’s not like it used to be, back in the bad old days of crumbles and collapses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026

But any debate over female filmmakers in genre cinema crumbles under the considerable evidence and attendant indignation to be found in “1000 Women in Horror.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

Turn off the electrical charges and everything crumbles to an invisible fine dust.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

That looseness doomed Texas all afternoon long, as a 10-point lead crumbled into their first defeat of the season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The powerful surf exacerbated by the morning's high tide slammed into coastal communities, including Long Beach, where signficiant sections of the boardwalk crumbled under the pounding waves and several homes suffered serious structural damage.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The planters are original to the stadium’s 1962 construction, and many had crumbled badly enough over the decades to need painstaking repair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

The hypocrisy of not paying athletes exasperated jurists all the way to the Supreme Court, and the old cabal crumbled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

His eyes had seen treasures he did not yet possess, and now they crumbled away.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

The reason for the veteran manager's upbeat vibe was because of his players' response after crumbling in the first half of their Europa League loss to Benfica.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Beyond staff shortages, teachers and pupils must also contend with crumbling school buildings, which a 2023 Senate report estimated would require billions of euros to renovate and adapt to a changing climate.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Protesters are demanding the government boost spending on the education system by fixing crumbling infrastructure, reducing class sizes and hiring new teachers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

McKinley stages a few bullet-sweating sequences of peril, including a particularly brutal transport of gold bars across a crumbling rope bridge and an underwater accident exacerbated by floating logs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The ramp he’d used to jump the creek—just some dirt and roots over rushing water—was crumbling.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles