fall apart

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Plus, the U.S. will blockade the Strait of Hormuz after Iran talks fall apart, and a chatbot relationship proves fatal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Fears that the ceasefire could fall apart while crude remains stuck in Hormuz saw West Texas Intermediate oil jump around three percent Thursday, having plunged more than 16 percent the day before.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

They added these extraordinary efforts to hide his identity began to fall apart in September 2000, after he was charged with defacing a billboard in New York.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

She could cry once she was home, but there was no way she was going to fall apart in front of Claire.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway