wreckage
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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
"I live there," she said, pointing at the wreckage, before adding: "Used to."
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
The disorder looks like the wreckage of an unknown chaos.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Later that day, Hamas operative Muhammed Issam Hassan al-Habil was traveling in a car through the wreckage of northwest Gaza.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Some 120 sailors from the USS Nantucket, docked at the North End Wharf, raced across the pier and waded through the thick molasses, looking for survivors buried in the wreckage.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing wreckage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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Compound Fracture
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