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implode

verb as in collapse inward

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The UN's environment chief insists that a landmark global treaty tackling plastic pollution remains achievable, despite talks twice imploding without agreement, and the chair suddenly resigning this week.

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But the conversation reverberating around the sport on Sunday was about how the team with the seemingly limitless budget imploded.

It was enough to give hope to the millions of fans around the country who want nothing more from their October baseball than to see the Yankees and Dodgers implode in spectacular fashion.

The Saints are coming off a win, but the Giants totally imploded.

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He kept imploding in the postseason yet he kept coming back, year after year after year.

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