wreck
Example Sentences
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Instead, the so-called autopsy was a shambolic train wreck of missing paragraphs, factual errors, and apparent plagiarism.
From Slate • May 23, 2026
A scenario where the crucial Persian Gulf waterway remains mostly closed through the end of August would further deplete global Brent crude supplies and increase the odds of a “2008 train wreck scenario.”
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
The challenge is that this is the train wreck you can see coming.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
But echoes of the tech wreck are getting hard to ignore.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
And Finn had said indignantly, “It’s our rec room. Don’t you think we’d wreck a TV if it was down here?”
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Vocabulary lists containing wreck
"Return to Titanic" and "Talking with Robert Ballard"
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Commonly Confused Words, List 3
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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