buckle

While some enjoyed the sunshine, the heat caused trains, schools and emergency services to buckle.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Roads will continue to buckle and flights will continue to be delayed from extreme heat, Marlon warns.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Everything from seat-belt buckle mechanisms to door latches could change how passengers might evacuate in an emergency, or how they are protected in a crash, Federal Aviation Administration chief Bryan Bedford told reporters last month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

This approach enabled us to create a material that can bend, buckle, or stiffen differently under slow movements versus sudden impacts -- without electronics, sensors, or active control.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026

It had a little tarnished buckle on a strap.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

“We need more cowboy hats and belt buckles in Washington,” he wrote in a campaign post on July 15.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

As the state-backed property giant buckles under the weight of its debt, the government has so far refrained from stepping in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

He trains hard, mentally prepares himself and still buckles to fear.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2025

He buckles Maisie into her car seat while Niko studies a swarm of ants devouring cookie crumbs on their driveway.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025

He is paying farmers near Cancale to butcher lambs and rabbits; Claude buckles the meat into his wife’s matching vinyl suitcases and carries them himself by train to Paris.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Lisandro Martinez: Experience vital on a day when the home side might have buckled.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

I had only ever seen him on Zoom, and although he was tall, which was nice, I tried not to judge his brown cracked-leather buckled pilgrim shoes paired with high-waist Wrangler jeans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Elsewhere, vehicles on a two-lane road were seen carefully navigating sections of buckled pavement.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The sky was the limit for turning offices into apartments – until some columns buckled.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

I get Boo buckled into the car seat and Lou Ann backs out of the garage.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

Iran’s economy is already buckling under the combined weight of years of sanctions and soaring inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Christine Ji and Hannah Pedone looked into the reasons for the buckling AI trade, with more than two-thirds of stocks in the S&P 500 information technology sector down at least 20% from their recent highs.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Video from inside the building shows the buckling beam.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

"Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

He bundled her into his arms and leapt down from the crates, landing roughly, his bad leg buckling.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo