collapse
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The deal’s collapse and resulting burst of violence led the administration to reconsider its approach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“We are low-keying it with Iran,” he told a reporter with Axios in a phone call on Sunday, meaning that he’s just waiting for Iran to collapse.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
That timing supports the conclusion that natural selection associated with diet, rather than the later population collapse, was responsible for the genetic pattern seen today.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
As a result, you could see the charts collapse.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
In the fireworks’ diminishing glow, the tenement houses across the street seemed precarious, as though they would collapse into ruin and rubble at any moment.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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This is especially true when the inequality persists intergenerationally: Social mobility declines and public belief in opportunity for all collapses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Calderas form when an eruption empties such an enormous volume of magma that the ground above the reservoir collapses.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Root's unbeaten 76 at Edgbaston kept England in contention, with a 121-run partnership with Liam Dawson coming between collapses of 6-107 and 4-30, while an undefeated 99 in Cardiff anchored England's successful chase.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Staff there lost over $1 billion in the collapse, which took place, like many collapses, in a matter of weeks.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Javier arrives before dawn in an unraveling tweed suit, his face sunken to flat angles, and collapses on his mother’s back porch.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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News footage showed collapsed buildings across western Colombia, though officials said they did not fear a tsunami.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
By the time the bubble burst, the industry was sitting on huge amounts of unused “dark fiber,” which collapsed prices and crushed heavily indebted operators.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Video posted on social media showed the collapsed spire of a church in Manizales.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
It creaked past his shelter, past the collapsed buildings and ravaged orchards towards the west, away from the Yellow Line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Boaz’s eyes glazed, the color vanishing from his face as he collapsed back onto the ground.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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With black smoke belching high into the sky, Lobga staggers some 90 seconds before collapsing in flames and a U.N. security guard rushes over blasting an extinguisher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Jones Trading’s Michael O’Rourke wants us to pay attention to collapsing AI-token prices.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The fire broke out on June 17, burning for more than a week and collapsing the 500,000-square-foot facility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
During Wednesday's hearing at the High Court in Kampala witnesses in court said Besigye repeatedly shouted "stop" about his legal representation before collapsing.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
She stood, her chair scraping like Moss’s had, and she moved into the wings, collapsing into a man’s arms.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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