collapse
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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
The Journal’s sports columnist leads a roundtable with acclaimed WSJ soccer correspondents Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg on who’s going to win and who’s going to collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
"What is happening today is the complete collapse of the community as a result of the settlers' continuous and repeated attacks," Farhan Jahaleen, a Bedouin from the village, told AFP in January.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
The first, in which AIG had taken most of the risk of a market collapse, lasted until the end of 2005.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing collapse
The Great Depression and The New Deal
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