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Putin himself has given little sign he is feeling under pressure, telling journalists earlier this month: "I have no doubt that the enemy will crumble."

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

But in the months since, his pageant dreams have begun to crumble.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Yet even the best projections can crumble if, say, a parent loses a high-paying job or diverts money from their own retirement account to fund a 529 plan.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

Because the enzymes worked in sequence, the material did not simply crumble into smaller plastic fragments.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

To be surrounded by hundreds was enough to make one crumble.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Cake crumbles, graham-cracker crust toppings and star-spangled sprinkles are a whole other challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

"Today, that narrative crumbles, and it does so with the full force of a court ruling."

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

"The irony is now we're just studying a regular comet and it crumbles in front of our eyes," said principal investigator Dennis Bodewits, also a professor in Auburn University's Department of Physics.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026

For an indulgent breakfast option, she suggests making a tiramisu chia seed pudding with freshly-brewed espresso, oat milk, chia seeds, granola crumbles and a cacao dusting.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

“Who knows? 45 Maybe someday, after all this crumbles away, the trees will be back, and these storms will make sense again.”

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

The Swedish American Investment Corp. put most of its assets under the sway of Ivar Kreuger, an aggressive dealmaker who later died in an apparent suicide after his business empire crumbled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Jaissle's side crumbled and conceded three goals in a chastening 14-minute period in the first half.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

The hypocrisy of not paying athletes exasperated jurists all the way to the Supreme Court, and the old cabal crumbled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

There were scenes of destruction in several cities, including Manizales, where the tower of a beloved neo-Gothic cathedral crumbled.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

These officials had never believed him before, but their former skepticism had crumbled under the weight of new developments.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

But that highly-profitable model is currently crumbling as courts are increasingly treating college athletic conferences as cartels engaged in anti-competitive price-fixing.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

The retirement myth of endless golf games or fishing trips melting into decades of elder bliss has been crumbling for decades.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Though Sharpeville may be a place name rich in historical resonance, it scarcely looks like a site that symbolises the struggle: the township is slowly crumbling.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

At its center is the crumbling marriage of two scientists; the story moves from a research base in Antarctica to a Wisconsin apple farm and, eventually, to a wild place called the Duoverse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Left in the crumbling city schools were blacks from all economic strata—the majority were poor—and impoverished whites, including C.P.’s children.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson