wreckage
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As would “Little Bear Ridge Road,” Samuel D. Hunter’s savagely unsentimental study of an estranged aunt and nephew picking through the wreckage of their family history.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
The wind was biting, so we stopped by the wreckage of an old farm building to seek shelter.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
The disorder looks like the wreckage of an unknown chaos.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Nobody survived and HMS Erebus's exact fate remained unknown until 2014, when its wreckage was uncovered in the icy waters of northern Canada.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
Some 120 sailors from the USS Nantucket, docked at the North End Wharf, raced across the pier and waded through the thick molasses, looking for survivors buried in the wreckage.
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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