wreckage
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The wreckage was scattered across 37,000 sq m, the equivalent of five football pitches, as the plane collided with accommodation for medical students, and broke apart.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
This doesn’t work for Alice, however, who goes from disbelief to sabotage to an act of betrayal whose wreckage spills out over the series and blows back on her.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
It shared images of the burnt out wreckage of a car on a road outside the village.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
The poems remain resistant, as they must; but their resistance now carries the force of address, a bottle sent out from wreckage toward an unknown reader.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
He and Abby weren’t really sitting alone in the wreckage of Magpie Campground, next to what used to be their camper.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
Vocabulary lists containing wreckage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for June 12–June 18, 2021
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Compound Fracture
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