buckling
Example Sentences
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Chinese food-delivery giant Meituan swung into the red for the first time in nearly three years, buckling under the costs of a brutal price war.
The group, led by New Jersey AG Matthew Platkin, condemned the firms for buckling under political pressure, in a letter sent to the chief executives of the companies, and called their action "unjustifiable" on Thursday.
From Reuters
Over months of offensives, the Russian war machine faltered badly, failing to capture Kyiv and buckling on other fronts in Ukraine’s south and east.
From Washington Post
So as impressive as this week's stock market resilience had been to the new inflation and rates environment, it appears to be buckling again already.
From Reuters
Theirs is a country buckling under compounding crises: A civil war, disease after years of destruction.
From New York Times
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