collapse
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Now Cuba is facing the brink of collapse.
From Barron's • May 30, 2026
"So we are not talking about a collapse of the Labour vote, but we are talking about a significant decline in it," he explained.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
Schrader said it typically takes him four to six months to fully develop a screenplay idea, a process of testing, discarding and gradually refining concepts until they either strengthen or collapse under scrutiny.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Following the collapse of talks, Lululemon launched a counterattack, urging shareholders to reject Wilson’s nominees and instead vote for its own slate, which it called “vastly superior to Wilson’s.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
As she takes off in a full sprint, I fall back and collapse into the tall grass.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Vocabulary lists containing collapse
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