rubble
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As Brennan and his team left the airport in a convoy of Toyota SUVs, the rubble and wreckage from years of war marked the landscape of sand, brush and sheep herds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
A mother stands by the rubble, crying out for her daughter.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
The woman trapped in the rubble had been living in the complex with her husband and young daughter.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
Some of the buildings at the Thahtay Kyaung monastery, where saffron-clad monks cleared rubble from the wreckage by hand in the days after the quake, have been razed.
From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026
Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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