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wreck

[rek] / rɛk /




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Apple reports earnings today after emerging relatively unscathed from last week’s tech wreck.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

There’s little left of the ship itself but based on clues from its cargo – including pottery vessels – a research team I was part of has tentatively dated the wreck to around 2700–2400 BCE.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

"Comparing the decoration techniques… we can definitely say our wreck is Early Bronze Age. This is 100%."

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Coissac said he had spoken to one survivor of the wreck who came from the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, where rebels are battling the federal government in a recent flare-up of violence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

It appears as though they are trying to make the old wreck seaworthy.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

The man who did so much to associate the country with the red paint and horsepower explicitly avoided hiring his own countrymen after too many of them died in fiery wrecks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

There are hundreds of wrecks in the area, and the Mediterranean Archaelogy Association specialises in finding and studying them.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

The findings suggest that authorities may eventually need to take more direct action to address pollution from certain wrecks.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

It struck musicians and illustrators, YouTubers and Instagrammers, self-proclaimed anxious wrecks and the freest of spirits.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

There was no sign of violence, no wrecks, nothing like that.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

I also don’t want my sister to feel that caring for mom has wrecked her finances.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

A Welsh artist calling himself Joseffson added a wooden frame to one of the wrecked meters, turning it into an art piece titled “Democracy Manifest, 2026.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Sniffer dogs in Japan helped rescuers Friday make a final sweep of a shopping mall wrecked by an explosion after a big earthquake, as the death toll from the tremor three days earlier hit 35.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

The art school previously insisted it was committed to a faithful reinstatement of the building, which was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh but wrecked by two fires in 2014 and 2018.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Striding out into the churchyard, Cluny climbed up on the wrecked gatepost.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

His comments on the sidelines of G20 talks come as Russian and Ukrainian strikes targeting Black Sea ports have been wrecking and idling agricultural export capacity more quickly than trade flows can recover.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Whether he takes a wrecking ball to it or lets it stagnate, the Kennedy Center threatens to become his latest victim.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The 1982-83 winter season, which coincided with a very strong El Niño, was historically destructive for California’s coast, with storms wrecking the Santa Monica and Seal Beach piers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

One rule of thumb in investing is that the older one gets, the more conservative the investment portfolio should be in order to prevent stock-market volatility from wrecking retirement plans.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

On May 11, 1906, the wrecking company dynamited the wheel, for scrap.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson


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