wreckage
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The wreckage is settled in an area about 130 feet deep, just past the limit to which humans can safely dive, police told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Survivors wheeled and circled above the wreckage for days, and injured birds straggling ashore were killed by Angelenos looking for a free meal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
In “Scattered Steel” these authors track the metal salvaged from the approximately 1.8 million tons of wreckage at Ground Zero.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Yet again, the England men's cricket team is picking through the wreckage of a late-night misdemeanour.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
She recognizes the unmistakable signs of a flashback: a woman at a window, a woman with a past, with memory and desire and wreckage in her heart.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing wreckage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for June 12–June 18, 2021
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Compound Fracture
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