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come apart

















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snap
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Using advanced imaging techniques and earthquake data, scientists have now seen this subduction zone starting to come apart.

From Science Daily Apr. 29, 2026

It all began to come apart in 1980.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

It is known to be unreliable under pressure, and its layers are known to come apart in a process called delamination.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2025

And you can already see the seams of the endless, exhausting effort to push back starting to come apart.

From Slate Nov. 5, 2024

Aunty Ifeka went back to her stirring, and Olanna’s image of their marriage began to come apart at the seams.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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