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While some enjoyed the sunshine, the heat caused trains, schools and emergency services to buckle.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

The museum also confirmed it lost a bust, brooches, a perfume bottle, two bracelets, comb, hatpin, belt buckle and several necklaces and pendants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Hot weather can affect overhead power lines on the railways and also cause rails to buckle.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

This approach enabled us to create a material that can bend, buckle, or stiffen differently under slow movements versus sudden impacts -- without electronics, sensors, or active control.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026

Toby scrambled between the two seats and spent a solid two minutes trying to find and buckle the seat belt before Lily reached across him to help.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

“We need more cowboy hats and belt buckles in Washington,” he wrote in a campaign post on July 15.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

“Just every department: boots, hats, belt, buckles, T-shirts, Western shirts,” store co-owner Julie Newport told The Times of Haaland’s purchases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

“Your buckles should face not left, not right, but straight ahead.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

He trains hard, mentally prepares himself and still buckles to fear.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025

Others were leather, with rusted buckles or rotted laces.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

Richard Wilcock, Rail Magazine industry editor, said it was hard to know the cause without speculating, but photographs appeared to show "clearly a buckled track".

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

I had only ever seen him on Zoom, and although he was tall, which was nice, I tried not to judge his brown cracked-leather buckled pilgrim shoes paired with high-waist Wrangler jeans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Elsewhere, vehicles on a two-lane road were seen carefully navigating sections of buckled pavement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The sky was the limit for turning offices into apartments – until some columns buckled.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

As they tore through the other side and hit the asphalt again, the world warped and buckled around them.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

Video from inside the building shows the buckling beam.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

The war has taken a significant toll on an economy already buckling under runaway inflation—which hit 88.6% year-on-year in June—a weakened currency and years of compounding international isolation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

"Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

Forcing it to blink is not a costless enterprise, but buckling is not costless either.

From Slate ● May 18, 2026

Aboveboard, the tall grass around the pond was buckling under the weight of the snow, but the happy bulrushes stood tall under Cat in the Hat-high caps of powder.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx