broken-down
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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
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
Did you realize that the staff leader in games started last year, behind Yoshinobu Yamamoto, was that broken-down fighter Clayton Kershaw?
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026
From his second-floor apartment that overlooked a stretch of road in Sylmar lined with broken-down RV’s, Vincent Wolf fumed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
Then the broken-down wreck by the side of the road was in real trouble unless someone stopped to offer help.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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