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implode

[im-plohd] / ɪmˈploʊd /
VERB
collapse inward
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In these experiments, powerful lasers create shock waves that force a tiny diamond capsule to implode.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

Watching Graham Platner’s campaign implode was like watching that expensive red sports car get totaled.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

In 2008, it had to reverse course rapidly as banks imploded, and again in 2011 as the entire euro system threatened to implode.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 5, 2026

Few AI industry analysts expect OpenAI to implode completely, since there is room in the market for several models to thrive.

From Barron's Dec. 16, 2025

If I don’t change the subject, Violet’s enthusiasm will feed my tiny hopes, and I will implode from possibilities.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

If the AI trade implodes, that case only gets stronger.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

"The idea the labor market has turned a corner implodes with this report."

From BBC Mar. 6, 2026

A planned beach getaway by Lili and Esti implodes when a hotel clerk refuses to honor their reservation, a foreshadowing of far worse indignities to come.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2025

It is essential, especially as we all watch in grief as the Middle East implodes, to hasten our way to renewable energy sources and clean transit options.

From Seattle Times Oct. 20, 2023

The core implodes violently, the exterior rebounds and a supernova explosion results.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The company imploded and the stock went to zero “with little preamble,” Grantham wrote.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

That all changed when Humza Yousaf's premiership imploded in April 2024.

From BBC May 19, 2026

I want to be careful about what I’m not saying: I am not saying private credit is the next subprime market, which imploded in 2008.

From MarketWatch Apr. 22, 2026

Plans changed again before the scheduled launch in early 2021, when Credit Suisse’s hedge-fund business imploded; so he found another backer, a large hedge fund named Squarepoint Capital.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 4, 2026

But just because your parents’ marriage imploded doesn’t mean you can’t be happy with a boy.”

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

If the robot detects a problem, such as a knee joint that stops responding, it will try to recover its balance; if it can’t, he said, it will collapse onto itself like an imploding building.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

The big question is whether there’s a risk of it suddenly imploding.

From MarketWatch May 17, 2026

The boom in companies holding large stocks of cryptos has been a hot play this year, but that trade is now at risk of imploding and dragging down the rest of the sector with it.

From Barron's Oct. 25, 2025

New Jersey started imploding the day after Christmas in 2024.

From Slate Oct. 17, 2025

They constantly shifted configuration, some expanding by swarming over their neighbors, others imploding when their constituent villages seceded and joined other polities.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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