collapsed
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A man named Sohail told AFP that "everyone began screaming in panic" when his niece, who had escaped the building, arrived home to tell them it had collapsed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
In January, a collapsed sewer pipe outside Washington, D.C., spilled more than 240 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The lie collapsed with almost embarrassing speed, and the people who spread it now face potential legal exposure.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
The incident saw a junior school and surrounding houses in the village engulfed in coal slurry after a colliery spoil tip collapsed on 21 October 1966.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Whereupon all three children collapsed to the ground, laughing uproariously at their own joke.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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