collapse
Example Sentences
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Similar dynamics brought on the euro crisis, though the euro didn’t collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
It’s an agonizing loss that’s getting grimly compared with Atlanta’s 28-3 Super Bowl collapse to the Patriots.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Long before that collapse, however, hunters relied on a variety of strategies and locations to harvest bison, sometimes shifting from one site to another.
From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026
"If there is another quake, I'm scared the hospital will collapse."
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
The combination of the summit’s collapse and the first two landslides lowered the mountain thirteen hundred feet.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Vocabulary lists containing collapse
The Great Depression and The New Deal
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"A Retrieved Reformation" by O. Henry
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