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wreckage

[rek-ij] / ˈrɛk ɪdʒ /
NOUN
remains
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NOUN
ruins
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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

The disorder looks like the wreckage of an unknown chaos.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Nobody survived and HMS Erebus's exact fate remained unknown until 2014, when its wreckage was uncovered in the icy waters of northern Canada.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

It took almost two years and multiple search campaigns to find the wreckage and the plane’s black box recorders.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The water was filled with branches and wooden boards and other wreckage from the storm.

From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis




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