rubble
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Thirty-two-year-old schoolteacher Princess Juliet Jombo says properties built by her late father, a traditional ruler, were reduced to rubble.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 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
Analysts note the regime is battered but intact, still controls the Strait of Hormuz and could access its nuclear materials buried deep under rubble.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Inmates dug through rubble to excavate their own jailers, said relatives of current prisoners.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Foremole and his crew moved in to block off the hole with rocks and rubble.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing rubble
"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950)
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"The End and the Beginning," Vocabulary from the poem
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