crash
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Bond investors aren’t of one mind on whether the AI boom will transform the U.S. economy, trigger a crash or result in both.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
The systemic problem seems to be that most French politicians can see that a crash of some sort is coming sooner or later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Who has been arrested in the wake of the A66 fatal crash?
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Ponce added a whiteboard at the intersection keeping count of how many days had passed since the previous crash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Clare yelped and lost his balance, tumbling to the floor with a great crash.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Commenters and neighbors have told him that crashes have happened there since the 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Car crashes are common in Egypt, and often blamed on reckless driving, poor maintenance and uneven law enforcement.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
One worst-case fear is that debris could set off a chain reaction of crashes, leaving parts of low-Earth orbit unusable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in April banned the sale and import of inflaters marked with a part number from an obscure Chinese company identified in the crashes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
A woman turns the corner and almost crashes into her.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The advocate depute added: "The accused's vehicle crashed head-on, which caused both vehicles to come to a stop."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Nepalese hydropower workers have told the BBC about the catastrophic moment water from the Trishuli River crashed into their tunnel as the region was inundated by deadly flash floods last week.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Moore stepped on the gas and crashed through a wrought iron fence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Nepal was burying on Monday some of the hundreds of bodies retrieved after a deadly, tsunami-like flood crashed through the Himalayan region, sweeping away villages and leaving thousands still missing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
I flew past Dad crashed on the living room sofa watching TV and burst through my bedroom door with an impatient, “Sir Fig Newton.”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
“We’re just trying to keep kids from crashing into things and getting hurt,” Scheafer said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Their entire future kind of comes crashing down on them for a minute.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The ministry said a drone entered Romanian airspace near Galati before crashing in an unpopulated area in Tulcea county.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
"Everything came crashing down. It was terrifying," Cristina Ruiz Lopez, a lab worker who was at a supermarket in Granada, was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The bicycle came to a dead stop, tyres screeching, and I came crashing on to the pavement, the bicycle falling on top of me.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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