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wreck

[rek] / rɛk /




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Walker makes a magnificent wreck, though she is brilliant in every mood.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Instead, the so-called autopsy was a shambolic train wreck of missing paragraphs, factual errors, and apparent plagiarism.

From Slate • May 23, 2026

But echoes of the tech wreck are getting hard to ignore.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 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

Annabelle hates to wreck it by opening it.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti




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