fall apart
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Each of those stages is one more opportunity for the user to get distracted and for things to fall apart.
And as her marriage and literary career fall apart, her psychiatric problems intensify.
From Los Angeles Times
Instead, on the biggest night of his young career, before an audience eager to see things it had never seen, and validate him as skating’s best ever, Malinin fell, then fell apart.
Ilia Malinin fell apart in the men’s free skate, tumbling from near lock to win the gold medal to eighth place after a disastrous performance Friday.
From Los Angeles Times
Other cases against protesters accused of assaulting or impeding federal officers have also fallen apart.
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