wreck
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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
“I don’t know if their strategy is that, ‘We’re out, we’re going to wreck the plan,’” Mount said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“Poor Roselle,” Ben said sadly, “I bet he’s been a wreck of a man ever since meeting up with Meecham.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Those wartime losses helped leave the North Sea seabed scattered with wrecks, many of which remain there today.
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
Protected wrecks have legal protection, meaning that any disturbance or interference is only permitted under an official licence.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
The paratroopers that landed, scattered, are in a race to assault the airfield before Taiwan wrecks it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
It was like being back on one of the ship-breaking wrecks.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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“The Dog Stars” takes place in a wrecked, deserted 2035, after a viral plague has killed almost everybody on Earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
In dusty streets teeming with men in camouflage and scattered with wrecked military vehicles she scours for scenes of normality to post on the city social media pages.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 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
The brutal heat and intense working conditions inside the kitchen and the front area of the business come after a thief wrecked the rooftop air conditioning unit in search of copper wiring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
“Too bad all this stuff got wrecked, but at least I salvaged the scrolls. If I can get them back to Camp Half-Blood, maybe I can learn how to recreate Archimedes’s inventions.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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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
The 1982-83 winter season, which coincided with a very strong El Niño, was historically destructive for California’s coast, with storms wrecking the Santa Monica and Seal Beach piers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Rather, he yelled at them in a private meeting, complaining that by threatening to stop the war, they were wrecking his bargaining power in the ongoing peace talks.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Instead, the country faces a rapidly weakening rupee, dwindling net foreign investment, and worries that artificial intelligence will take a wrecking ball to the information technology industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
Seeing so much further into the future than he did, she pressed towards it with passionate tread, wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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