rubble
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Iran isn’t currently enriching uranium and would need to recover fissile material that is buried under tons of rubble if it wanted to sprint to a bomb.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
A statue of a soldier stands on a column rising from the rubble, hoisting a Russian flag.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
They showed videos of their homes before and photos of the piles of rubble after.
From Barron's • May 9, 2026
Homes have been reduced to layers of rubble.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
General Haig ordered his brave troops to battle on until the rubble of bricks that had once been the village of Passchendaele was finally captured by the Canadians on November 10, 1917.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing rubble
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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