collapse
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Up until then, China imported almost half of the world’s used plastic, and the collapse in this market spread turmoil among U.S. recyclers and resulted in more used plastics being sent to landfills.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Its crisis-hit economy is now facing the risk of collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
The cartel has survived global events such as Iran-Iraq war and Venezuela's collapse, he says, but "what it has never really survived is the loss of a founding-era major producer".
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
Levin—a former congressman, and the son of Carl Levin, the high-profile former Michigan senator—has spent years trying to hold together a version of Jewish politics that doesn’t collapse into an argument about Israel.
From Slate • Apr. 29, 2026
Once the buildings were up, in other words, Philadelphia’s hopes would collapse.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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