collapsing

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"These highest-energy cosmic rays are thought to come from extreme astrophysical sources, like two neutron stars colliding or a massive star collapsing," Murase said.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

"We saw walls collapsing, the floors opening up. And then water and mud began spurting up from underneath the flooring."

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

The video also showed a corrugated-roof shelter collapsing behind them, though the school said in its post that no-one was injured.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Known to posterity as “Stobaeus,” he lived in a time of turbulence, when “the Roman Empire was collapsing in the West but holding up better in the Greek-speaking East.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The Grootslang’s tail comes up from the deep, under the force field, and breaks through the middle of our ship, collapsing the sails and splitting the deck in half.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer