wreck
Example Sentences
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Instead, the so-called autopsy was a shambolic train wreck of missing paragraphs, factual errors, and apparent plagiarism.
From Slate • May 23, 2026
Decades later, more than 700 undelivered letters were recovered from the wreck.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
“While there were crises before that — the tech wreck, the Asian crisis, the early 1990s recession — they now seem more frequent and less related to traditional economic cycles,” says Oliver.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026
Lively's legal team have accused Baldoni and his film studio Wayfarer of leading a "multi-tiered plan" to wreck her reputation, which included social media manipulation and using friendly journalists to further certain narratives.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
This time there were no people around the wreck, no bodies on the ground.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Vocabulary lists containing wreck
"Return to Titanic" and "Talking with Robert Ballard"
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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