crumble

"I have no doubt that the enemy will crumble," he declared.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

But in the months since, his pageant dreams have begun to crumble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Because the enzymes worked in sequence, the material did not simply crumble into smaller plastic fragments.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

That’s reductive — the cookie doesn’t crumble quite so.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

When Belknap refused Holmes’s offer, Holmes seemed to crumble with hurt and disappointment.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Cake crumbles, graham-cracker crust toppings and star-spangled sprinkles are a whole other challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

It’s not like it used to be, back in the bad old days of crumbles and collapses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026

"The irony is now we're just studying a regular comet and it crumbles in front of our eyes," said principal investigator Dennis Bodewits, also a professor in Auburn University's Department of Physics.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026

"We watch a weather report and our whole world crumbles around us - it's taken a toll on our health if I'm perfectly honest with you - it's taken over our lives," he said.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

Her face crumbles for a second like she might cry.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

At her previous tournament in Toronto, she lost to Russian world number 19 Ekaterina Alexandrova in the last 16 as her serve crumbled.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

But the shipbuilding industry crumbled rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s, and Tate & Lyle shut the final Greenock sugar refinery in 1997.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Top each generously with chèvre — crumbled if firm, dolloped if soft and spreadable — and about ¼ cup of the crisp cornbread crumbs.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

There were scenes of destruction in several cities, including Manizales, where the tower of a beloved neo-Gothic cathedral crumbled.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

As the last of the zombies crossed, the stone bridge crumbled into the darkness, but by then it didn’t matter.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

"We will not allow any nation to determine our future. We will set our own course to keep building Canada strong for all," Carney said Friday, as negotiations for a bilateral trade deal were crumbling.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

The crumbling girls' primary school which he gave me a tour of upsets him because the 62-year-old studied here from 1968 to 1973.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Neither of us felt particularly protected by the law of marriage, and both of us had trauma around the crumbling reality of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Meanwhile, in Cuba, Chinese solar panels are a bright spot for a power grid plagued by fuel shortages, crumbling infrastructure and near-daily blackouts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Many of the buildings were rickety and crumbling, with only one or two stories.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu