wreck
Example Sentences
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The challenge is that this is the train wreck you can see coming.
From Barron's • May 15, 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
The circumstances of what caused the crash were not immediately available, but two adults and two infants were left trapped in the wreck, NBC4 reported.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
He thought of Fa: not Fa as he lay dying in the wreck of their shelter, but Fa as he’d been just before the bear attacked: laughing at the joke Torak had made.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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