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Venezuela's interim leader declared a state of emergency Wednesday as two massive earthquakes caused buildings in the capital to crumble and forced the closure of the country's main airport.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

In Spielberg’s eyes, another disaster would cause the stalwart nationalism to crumble.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

The evidence suggests that extreme heating from the Sun is cracking the asteroid's surface, releasing trapped gases and causing the body to slowly crumble apart.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026

It’s got cashew mozzarella, tomato sauce, Italian sausage crumble and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

But the subway did not collapse, and the skyscrapers didn’t crumble.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Cake crumbles, graham-cracker crust toppings and star-spangled sprinkles are a whole other challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

"The irony is now we're just studying a regular comet and it crumbles in front of our eyes," said principal investigator Dennis Bodewits, also a professor in Auburn University's Department of Physics.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026

Then add the feta as a single slab, not crumbles.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026

"We watch a weather report and our whole world crumbles around us - it's taken a toll on our health if I'm perfectly honest with you - it's taken over our lives," he said.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

Serve hot with crumbled Cotija cheese, sour cream, guacamole and pico de gallo.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

Daniela Oropeza, 34, who works in tourism and lives in the seaside community of Catia La Mar, said a district known as Playa Grande had crumbled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

But the arrangement crumbled when the ownership of the franchise changed hands in 2024, and the new owners balked at recognizing Mansell’s claim on its inventory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

The 13-year-old survived the twin tremors of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 on Wednesday that killed her mother and her uncle, who shielded her body from the building that crumbled around them.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

What seemed like a mundane afternoon would go down in history as the day my world crumbled.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

It’s harder when you’ve lived a longer life and things are built in a certain way and it’s hard to have that crumbling down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

As their impatience grows, the window for Odysseus to reclaim his kingdom and restore a crumbling world to Zeus’ law — essentially open-hearted hospitality and treating others as you’d be treated — is closing.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

The new rich zip past crumbling neoclassical townhouses on Havana's famous seaside Malecon boulevard in SUVs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Venezuela was ill-prepared and vulnerable in an emergency situation because of its already "crumbling infrastructure" following decades of underinvestment, Jan Egeland told the BBC.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

I remember those ruins: they seemed scary, all gray, crumbling stone and spider webs.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall