meltdown
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The best case for not selling Berkshire right now is if you think we are going to have another stock-market meltdown sometime soon.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Four sources have told the paper that a flight plan submitted by a military aircraft led to a shutdown of British skies for several hours, causing a "meltdown" within the wider air traffic control system.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
"I was so tired and there were so many of them and I wanted to have a complete meltdown and just cry, but I couldn't because if I stopped moving, they started biting me," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
It’s a chance to chill for the people of a nation — once among the richest in Latin America — that has endured more than a decade of economic meltdown, political turmoil and mass emigration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
As the world descended into anxiety, paranoia and financial meltdown, not to mention Fascism and Stalinism, increasingly it was composers embracing popular forms who became the voice of conscience.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
At almost $90 a pound, it is as much as five times more than sellers were fetching at the lowest parts of the downturn that followed the Fukushima reactor meltdowns in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Brady, who was born in Bathgate, West Lothian, sought a diagnosis about five years ago as she was experiencing meltdowns.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
It was one of the biggest software meltdowns of all time, and the stock declined by 36% in the next two weeks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
DFKs’ explosions or meltdowns occur during emotional turbulence.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
Fallout from the meltdowns will affect the region for decades, possibly centuries.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
