wreckage
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“We’ll be here till tomorrow dealing with this blaze,” said Major Issa Hamdoun, a civil defense commander, as he watched his men manhandling the fire hose into the wreckage of the building.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 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
Moments after she escaped from the wreckage, it burst into flames.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Makan’s casket, however, is empty — a symbolic burial for a child whose body was never recovered from the wreckage.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
With the luck of the damned, Shawn had crawled from the wreckage, although he’d hit his head and couldn’t remember the days before the accident.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Vocabulary lists containing wreckage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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Compound Fracture
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