rubble
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Troubles are already piling up around De Zerbi's feet like rubble and he has barely got his feet under the desk.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
Any effort by Iran to recover highly enriched uranium—what Trump calls “nuclear dust”—buried under rubble after strikes on three nuclear sites last June could take months, Trump said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
The woman trapped in the rubble had been living in the complex with her husband and young daughter.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Some of the buildings at the Thahtay Kyaung monastery, where saffron-clad monks cleared rubble from the wreckage by hand in the days after the quake, have been razed.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
Firemen doused the area with water, and amid the steaming smoke everyone began clawing the rubble away.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
Vocabulary lists containing rubble
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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