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Concrete slabs between the homes had started to crack or buckle, with some of the fissures running all the way up to or under the homes’ walls, the news outlet reported.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

"Time for us all to buckle up and get ready for the ride," said director of cricket Rob Key when McCullum was appointed.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Some of that extra weight was what caused the steel beams to buckle, Nathan Berman, managing principal and founder of MetroLoft, told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

He managed to survive in the shielded void, a life-saving scenario that occasionally unfolds as multistory structures tumble pancake-style, support beams buckle and slabs of concrete crash down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

She also steadies me, because my knees buckle a little.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

"So they detach the slow-growing gut, which is now tethering the lengthening body. The body buckles and twists into coiling," Miyashita explains.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

“We need more cowboy hats and belt buckles in Washington,” he wrote in a campaign post on July 15.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

Neatly labeled drawers hold hand fans, plastic snakes, buttons, buckles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Ellie Saab's runway featured slinky trenches that were tightly belted and Givenchy's designs appeared lighter in colour with bold black buttons and buckles.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

“Get your pillow, Moose,” he said, snapping the buckles on my suitcase.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

A year later, Bosnian President Biljana Plavsic buckled to international pressure and dismissed him.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

I had only ever seen him on Zoom, and although he was tall, which was nice, I tried not to judge his brown cracked-leather buckled pilgrim shoes paired with high-waist Wrangler jeans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

That project was put on hold after two steel columns buckled, forcing an evacuation of nine surrounding buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Elsewhere, vehicles on a two-lane road were seen carefully navigating sections of buckled pavement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Her day satchel was packed, her uniform was on, shoes buckled; she’d wrestled her hair into a tight bun the way the matrons insisted she do.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

The leak wasn’t visible to the eye: They realized there was a problem when the floors started buckling.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

And the pressure on infrastructure—rail lines buckling, things like that—disrupts transport and logistics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Video from inside the building shows the buckling beam.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

"Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

“Dude!” the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tysons weight.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan