smashup
Example Sentences
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Before the smashup began, the Indian Plate varied in thickness and composition, which helps explain the crescent shape of the 2500-kilometer-long Himalayan front.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024
Because the event likely battered Uranus’s interior, an orbiter that can detect fluctuations in the planet’s gravitational field would be able to map any internal anomalies created by the giant smashup.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 30, 2023
Several valuable vehicles are arriving at — or leaving — the museum today, a coincidental calendar smashup that has Yates ping-ponging between projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
The other key measurement is the orbital period of Dimorphos around Didymos; it was 11 hours and 55 minutes before the smashup.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
"I read once of a comp'ny putting two locomotives on one track an' running 'em full-tilt together so's to get a picture of the smashup."
From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by Cooper, James A.
