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A trip to the mailbox could become a tumbledown Niagara Falls.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 16, 2026

You can see how from Abu Khaled's tumbledown farmhouse, a bumpy few minutes' drive from the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya.

From BBC Mar. 22, 2023

He crusaded to restore the state’s tumbledown missions and built the city’s first museum, the Southwest, where he housed his matchless collection of artifacts.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 19, 2022

The result is “Mundos Secretos,” a long-simmering collection of smeared, tumbledown, D.I.Y. psych-jazz excursions that evoke the auras of bossa nova and tropicalia in magnetic and mysterious ways.

From Washington Post Feb. 2, 2022

To them these tumbledown stones must loom as huge as the Wall of Westeros.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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