rubble
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Images from the scene hours after the crash showed scores of emergency service workers sorting through charred rubble in an attempt to find survivors.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
“I’m back to zero,” said Romero, whose wife and children were pulled out alive from under the rubble and now all live in roadside tents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Some positive nuggets are starting to emerge from the rubble, however.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
But in the early hours of Sunday morning, the family-owned store was reduced to ash and rubble after a powerful blaze ignited inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 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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