rubble
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One issue is Gaza authorities’ woefully reduced resources to search and retrieve bodies from the rubble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
After many minutes of crawling to try and escape the "hell hole that I was in", Berriff emerged from under the rubble.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Six months after Harley Di Nardo’s sister Marisa vanished when jets struck the Twin Towers, police knocked on the door of the Di Nardo family home carrying Marisa’s charred, black purse, found in the rubble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The documentary powerfully captures the apocalyptic landscape of Gaza City, its streets reduced to rubble and mangled rebar, and the weighty sense of responsibility shouldered by the few remaining journalists on the ground.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Together with the German people, they cleared the rubble from the streets.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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