collapsed

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The project Collins chose to champion in her first television advertisement in May was the Eastport breakwater, a pier in Eastport, Maine, that collapsed in 2014.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2026

Yet residents who have cautiously returned to Nabatieh have expressed dismay at the huge damage Israel inflicted on the city's neighbourhoods and its famed market, where the roofing had collapsed and shops were devastated.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

The great movement toward corporate concentration might have collapsed and antitrust law would have become almost moot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Adam Ankers, 17, collapsed with chest pains while he was playing for Wycombe Wanderers Foundation's under-19s in January 2024 and later died in hospital, having suffered brain damage.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Most of the water collapsed back, but a new bottom, formed from the dirt and rock of the landslide, had already been laid down by the time the water refilled the lake.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone