smashup

Example Sentences

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Before the smashup began, the Indian Plate varied in thickness and composition, which helps explain the crescent shape of the 2500-kilometer-long Himalayan front.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 9, 2024

Several valuable vehicles are arriving at — or leaving — the museum today, a coincidental calendar smashup that has Yates ping-ponging between projects.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2023

And they’re lessons that underscore just how the Cubists plunged into a new world, without fear, and gave us a vital example for a contemporary culture desperate for its own smashup.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022

Back in 2009 a smashup between an active communications satellite and the long-dead Russian Cosmos 2251 satellite created nearly 2,000 pieces of space junk, most of which still orbits our planet today.

From Scientific American • Sep. 19, 2022

Sure enough, there was an immediate response, and the whirring that followed announced that, strange to say, the machine had not been vitally injured in the smashup, though badly damaged with regard to looks.

From The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron : or, the Struggle for the Silver Cup by Forbes, Graham B