wreckage
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It took almost two years and multiple search campaigns to find the wreckage and the plane’s black box recorders.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Later that day, Hamas operative Muhammed Issam Hassan al-Habil was traveling in a car through the wreckage of northwest Gaza.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
Makan’s casket, however, is empty — a symbolic burial for a child whose body was never recovered from the wreckage.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
An AFP reporter at the scene witnessed people being carried out of the wreckage on gurneys and loaded into waiting ambulances as hundreds of bystanders looked on, some seemingly in shock.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Ryan’s Herculean effort continued until he was able to remove enough wreckage for Merrithew to wiggle free.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing wreckage
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -age
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Compound Fracture
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