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collapse

[kuh-laps] / kəˈlæps /




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The park service said earthquakes during the 2018 Kīlauea volcano eruption and summit collapse had damaged the cliffs near the arch.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

A tsunami-like wall of water and debris triggered by a glacial and rock collapse on the Nepal-China border on August 26 killed nearly 1,500 and left 5,800 missing in the two countries.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

European automakers are hungry for growth after a sales collapse in China triggered by falling home prices and digitally savvy local competitors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Public transportation has largely ground to a halt, and the repeated collapse of the national power grid plunges the entire island into darkness for days at a time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Seven had to force herself not to collapse right then and there.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

A humanoid’s frantic attempts to stay upright—arms flailing, legs skittering—bears an uncanny resemblance to the choreographed collapses of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

It usually moves out to about 50 basis points, or collapses to zero.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Successive column collapses generate pyroclastic density currents with the resulting deposits reaching several hundred meters in thickness, as they did in the last super-eruption.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

It’s one of the most epic collapses for a league champion in MLS history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Susan collapses to the ground, crying, and Caleb crouches next to her.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

That ceasefire collapsed, and the two sides have fought sporadically since.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

His clients on the street of shame included Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX, the cryptocurrency fraud, which collapsed in 2022, costing investors billions.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

In the first phase of its probe, the regulator looked into several loans granted to collapsed Austrian real estate empire Signa.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

The cloud collapsed and flattened into a disk, eventually giving rise to the sun at its center and the planets that formed around it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

I held on as the camel’s neck whiplashed, and the animal collapsed.

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

Christian Eriksen has left Wolfsburg by mutual consent, just over three months after collapsing during Denmark's friendly with Ukraine.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Communities across all states bordering Wyoming face darkness, breathing difficulties and roofs collapsing under accumulated ash.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Further south, at least seven homes in Dana Point were declared uninhabitable after the coast on which they sit rapidly eroded, with one house collapsing into the sea.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Folk singer Ray LaMontange was treated for heat-related dehydration after collapsing onstage during a weekend performance amid triple-digit heat in Nashville.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Chandrasekhar showed that a collapsing star that has about 1.4 times the mass of our sun will have enough gravity to overwhelm the Pauli exclusion principle.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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