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Representatives from Big Oil, along with many smaller companies, mixed with their peers and government officials and grumbled about the country’s broken-down electrical grid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
In an undeveloped eastern part of the city, the caravan turned off the pavement and bumped along a dirt road to an opening in the Joshua trees where a broken-down recreational vehicle came into view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
But for Dreesen, this meant sleeping in a Nash Rambler, a broken-down car that was up on blocks, and hitchhiking up and down Sunset Boulevard hoping to get a five-minute set at the Comedy Store.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
A van driver who killed the passenger of a broken-down car on a smart motorway where the safety alert system was malfunctioning has been given a suspended sentence.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
Kept on telling me I owed her for uniforms and some old broken-down bed she give me.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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