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[rek] / rɛk /




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Though Liniger continued to live with significant paralysis on her left side after the plane wreck, she learned to play golf with one arm immobilized in a sling and became an accomplished one-armed golfer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"The divers also recorded video and took photos, which we subsequently used to assess the exposure of the mines and the condition of the wreck."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

"There is no plan B" a former government adviser told me, so could a slowdown wreck future prospects here in Britain?

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The wreck claimed the lives of Nathesia Lewis, 42, Lynette Noble, 38, Asherey Ryan, 23, her 11-month-old son, Alonzo, and her boyfriend, Reynold Lester, 23.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Maybe it’s in that wind out over the sea that’s bringin’ with it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

UC-30 later became one of the wrecks examined through the major NorthSeaWrecks research project.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

It struck musicians and illustrators, YouTubers and Instagrammers, self-proclaimed anxious wrecks and the freest of spirits.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

The Mediterranean seabed is thought to be scattered with similar ancient wrecks.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

“I love my sisters so much that the idea that something could happen to them — it wrecks me,” Haim says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

“Chavez is greedy. If she can take us as a prize, she’ll call us pirate. If she wrecks us, tangles us, and sinks us, she doesn’t get the money.”

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

A Welsh artist calling himself Joseffson added a wooden frame to one of the wrecked meters, turning it into an art piece titled “Democracy Manifest, 2026.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Sniffer dogs in Japan helped rescuers Friday make a final sweep of a shopping mall wrecked by an explosion after a big earthquake, as the death toll from the tremor three days earlier hit 35.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Japan is haunted by the memory of a massive 9.0-magnitude undersea quake in 2011, which triggered a tsunami that killed or left missing around 18,500 people and wrecked the Fukushima nuclear plant.

From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026

If its reigning dynasty is wrecked by loose bodies or a needle stuck in a left knee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

“This” She steps to the side and points at the bottom of the stairs—at Peck and his wrecked face.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

In May, the company’s New Glenn rocket exploded on a launchpad in Florida, wrecking the site.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Whether he takes a wrecking ball to it or lets it stagnate, the Kennedy Center threatens to become his latest victim.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Unofficially, it feels like getting hit with a leather-upholstered wrecking ball.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

“Haughty, hectoring and pleased with herself, she is single-handedly wrecking her hen-pecked husband Gavin’s lofty political ambitions.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

When the ring was complete, I considered wrecking it again, but the gods were inoffensive, dull.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner




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